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Useful Reference Series No. 29 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 




















Shakespearean Oracles 

A Collection of the Most Quot¬ 
able Short Sayings from the 
Great Dramas; Designed Espe¬ 
cially as a Handbook for Public 
Speakers, Debaters and Writers 


COMPILED BY 

BEZA BOYNTON KAISER 

Past President, Women’s Press Club, Cleveland 


With an Introduction by 

AZARIAH S. ROOT 

Librarian Oberlin College 


BOSTON 

The F. W. Faxon Company 
1923 







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PREFACE 


To add one more to the already large number of books 
made up of selections from that vast treasure-house, the 
Shakespearean Plays, calls for an excuse. 

Numerous and excellent as such books are, there seems 
to be none limited to the modest scope of the present 
venture. 

All well known passages of length, however brilliant 
or impressive, have been passed over; only the witty 
Proverb, the telling Epigram, the humble old Saw, to¬ 
gether with pithy phrases and sentences—frequently 
quoted or very quotable—have been gleaned. 

Under a somewhat free classification, the material se¬ 
lected has been arranged in three sections, named— 

Part I. Proverbs 

Part II. Familiar Quotations 

Part III. Epithets, Expletives, and Catch Phrases 

The purpose has been to produce a simple, inexpensive, 
little work that might serve as a handbook for students 
and lovers of the Great Dramas. 

It is also the compiler’s earnest hope that this modest 
volume, reviving so much that is or should be a part of 
our very literary consciousness, perhaps our sub-con¬ 
sciousness, may prove particularly useful in the prepa¬ 
ration of public speeches, students’ debates, and in liter¬ 
ary productions generally. A telling phrase or apt 
quotation is often the winning stroke in debate, speech 


PREFACE 


or written argument. No writer has surpassed our Shake¬ 
speare in his use of just such expressions. And, should 
this little book contribute its mite toward the restoration 
of Shakespearean expressions in our current speech and 
language, the compiler would feel richly rewarded. 

A full index would well-nigh double the size of the 
book, and so—at least in part—defeat its very purpose. 
However, a brief index has been arranged, by means 
of which every quotation may be found. Usually the 
leading noun in a sentence is the index word—though 
sometimes a verb or a memory-compelling adjective has 
been used. 

B. B. K. 

Cleveland, Ohio. 

April 15, 1922 


INTRODUCTION 


Every new handbook to Shakespeare reminds us 
afresh of the great debt which the English-speaking world 
owes to him. Mrs. Kaiser’s compilation, inasmuch as the 
material within the different sections is arranged by the 
individual dramas, demonstrates anew the universal quota- 
bility of Shakespeare and what a wealth of happy phrases 
may be found in every one of his plays. Among those 
who are lovers of Shakespeare this volume will find a 
ready place for itself, while those who like to trace the 
origins of our popular maxims will be impressed with the 
extent to which we are indebted to Shakespeare for the 
phrases in everyday use. Every user of this compilation 
will have toward the compiler a sense of grateful ob¬ 
ligation because of the patient labor of love which has 
made this work possible. 

Azariah S. Root. 

Oberlin College Library, 

April 22, 1922. 




























































































































































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Contents 


PAGE 


Introduction.7 

Preface . g 

List of Abbreviations .n 

Part I: Proverbs.15 


Part II : Familiar Quotations. 65 

Part III: Epithets, Expletives, and Catch Phrases 119 
Index.129 

























List of Abbreviations 

All’s Well That Ends Well . . . . . . . . . A.W.E.W. 

Antony and Cleopatra. A. & C. 

As You Like It.A.Y.L.I. 

Comedy of Errors .. C.E. 

Coriolanus. Cor. 

Cymbeline. Cym. 

Hamlet. Ham. 

Julius Caesar. J.C. 

King Henry IV, Part First.iK.H.IV. 

King Henry IV, Part Second.2K.H.IV. 

King Henry V. K.H'.V, 

King Henry VI, Part First.iK.H.VI. 

King Henry VI, Part Second.2K.H.VI. 

King Henry VI, Part Third .3K.H.VI. 

King Henry VIII.K.H.VIII. 

King John. K.J. 

King Lear. K.L. 

King Richard II. K.R.II. 

King Richard III . . . . . K.R.III. 

Love’s Labor’s Lost. L.L.L. 

Macbeth . Mac. 

Measure for Measure. M.M. 

Merchant of Venice. M.V. 





















LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 


Merry Wives of Windsor.M.W.W. 

Midsummer-Night’s Dream. M-N.D. 

Much Ado about Nothing. M.Ado. 

Othello. Oth. 

Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Per. 

Romeo and Juliet. R. & J. 

Taming of the Shrew. T.S. 

The Tempest. Tern. 

Titus Andronicus. T.A. 

Timon of Athens. T. of A. 

Troilus and Cressida. T. & C. 

Twelfth Night. Tw.N. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. T.G.V. 

Winter’s Tale. W.T. 















SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


PARTI. PROVERBS 




SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


PART I 

All adages, aphorisms, epigrams, maxims, mottoes, 
proverbs, old saws and sayings—swept together under the 
general title of Proverbs. 

PROVERBS 

Tem. 

Born to be hanged. i: i 

The very rats instinctively had quit it. (The 

boat). 1:2 

Too light winning makes the prize light. 1:2 

If the ill spirit have so fair a house, 

Good things will strive to dwell with’t. 1:2 

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort. .. 2:1 

He receives comfort like cold porridge. 2:1 

You rub the sore, when you should bring the 

plaster. 2:1 

Ebbing men most often do so near the bottom 
run, 

By their own fear or sloth. 2:1 

They’ll take suggestions, as a cat laps milk. 2:1 

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 2 :2 

I have no long spoon. 2 :2 

There be some sports are painful, and their labor 

Delight in them sets off. 3:1 

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He that dies, pays all debts. 3 :2 

Tread softly, that the blind mole may not hear a 

footfalL . 4:1 

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. 5:1 

Let no man take care for himself, for all is but 
fortune. 5:1 


T.G.V. 

Home-keeping youths have ever homely wit. . . 1 :i 

Indeed a sheep doth very often stray, 

An if the shepherd be awhile away. 1 :i 

The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep 

the shepherd. 1 :i 

Fire, that’s closest kept burns most of all. 1:2 

Experience is by industry achieved, 

And perfected by the swift course of time. . . 113 

Love is blind. 2:1 

Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. . . 2:2 

Love, thou knowest, is full of jealousy. 2:4 

I to myself am dearer than a friend. 2 :6 

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken. 2 :6 

Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on 

thee ?. 3:1 

Cease to lament for that thou can’st not help, 

And study help for that which thou lament’st. 3:1 

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 3:1 

Hope is a lover’s staff. 3:1 

To be slow in words, is a woman’s only virtue. . . 3:1 

Where your good word cannot advantage him, 

Your slander never can endamage him. 3:2 

Make a virtue of necessity. 4:1 


















PROVERBS 


1 7 


Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies’ eyes. .. 5 :2 

A thousand more mischances than this one, 

Have learned me how to brook this patiently. 5 -3 

In love, who respects friends? . 5:4 

The private wound is deepest. 5 14 


M.W.W. 

That’s meat and drink to me. 1 :i 

An old cloak makes a new jerkin. 1:3 

Young ravens must have food. 1 13 

If money go before, all ways do lie open. 2:2 

A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. . . 3 :2 

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults. 

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a 

year! . 3:4 

I’ll be horn mad.. 3:5 

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 4:2 

Still swine eat all the draff. 4:2 

Good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is di¬ 
vinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance 

or death. 5:1 

Life is a shuttle. 5 :i 

No man means evil but the devil. 5:2 

Better a little chiding, than a great deal of heart¬ 
break. 5 : 3 

As poor as Job—and as wicked as his wife. 5:5 

Hony soit qui mal y pense . 5 :5 

Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. . . 5 :5 

What cannot be eschewed, must be embraced. . . 5 :5 

When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased. 5 15 





















18 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Tw.N. 

Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. .. i - i 

What great ones do, the less will prattle of. 1:2 

Nature with a beauteous wall doth oft close in 

pollution. 1:2 

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. 1:2 

Care’s an enemy to life. 1 -3 

Is it a world to hide virtues in ?. 1:3 

He that is well hanged in this world needs to fear 

no colors. 1 -5 

God give them wisdom that have it; and those 

that are fools, let them use their talents. 1:5 

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. . . 115 

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 1: 

Cucullns non facit monachum . 1: 

Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make 

the better fool. 1: 

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he 
do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known 
discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove. 1: 

The fool shall look to the madman. 1 : 

What is decreed, must be.. 1:5 

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there 

shall be no more cakes and ale ? . 2 13 

Now is the woodcock near the gin. 2:5 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and 

some have greatness thrust upon them. 2 15 

Your servant’s servant is your servant. 3:1 

If one should be a prey, how much the better to 

fall before the lion, than the wolf. 3:1 

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 3 :i 
Since before Noah was a sailor. 3 :2 


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PROVERBS 19 

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou 

write with a goose pen. 3 .2 

’Tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with 

Satan. 3 ^ 

Keep o’ the windy side of the law. 3 :4 

That, that is, is. 4:2 

There is no darkness but ignorance. 4 .2 

Look to be well edified when the fool delivers the 

madman. 5:1 

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. .. 5:1 


MM. 

Good counsellors lack no clients. 1:2 

Surfeit is the father of much fast. 1:3 

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 2:1 

Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; 

Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. 2:1 

It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is 

tyrannous to use it like a giant. 2:2 

That in the captain’s but a choleric word, 

Which in a soldier is flat blasphemy. 2:2 

Great men may jest with saints: ’tis wit in them! 

But, in the less, foul profanation. 2:2 

Thieves for their robbery have authority, 

When judges steal themselves. 2:2 

Most dangerous is that temptation, that doth goad 
us on 

To sin in loving virtue. 2 :2 

Our compelled sins stand more for number than 
account. 214 



















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SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Wisdom wishes to appear most bright, when it 

doth tax itself. 2:4 

The miserable have no other medicine, but only 

hope. 3:1 

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. 3:1 

The benefit defends the deceit from reproof. 3:1 

All difficulties are but easy when they are known. 4:2 
He that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes 
in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the 

next day. 4:3 

I am a kind of burr, I shall stick. 4:3 

’Tis a physic that’s bitter to sweet end. 4:0 

Cucullus non fecit monachum . 5 :r 

Let the devil be sometimes honored for his burn¬ 
ing throne. 5:1 

That life is better life, past fearing death, 

Than that which lives to fear. 5:1 

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; 

Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Meas¬ 
ure.5:1 

They say,—best men are moulded out of faults... 5:1 

Thoughts are no subjects; intents but merely 

thoughts. 5:1 


MAdo. 

How much better it is to weep at joy, than to 

joy at weeping. 1 :i 

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. 1 :i 

What need the bridge much broader than the 

flood? . . . What will serve, is fit.. 1 :t 

Can virtue hide itself?. 2:1 

God sends a curst cow short horns. 2:1 




















PROVERBS 21 

Bait the hook well, this fish will bite. 213 

Sits the wind in that corner?. 2:3 

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot 

endure in his age. 213 

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. 3:1 

If he be sad, he wants money. 3 :2 

Every one can master a grief, but he that has it. 3 :2 
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, 

will never answer a calf when it bleats. 3:3 

My elbow itched, I thought there would a scab 

follow. 3 .3 

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor 

ones may make what price they will. 3 '3 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 3 13 

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. 315 

Give not this rotten orange to your friend. 4:1 

There was never yet philosopher, 

That could endure the tooth-ache patiently. .. 5:1 

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. 5:1 

Care killed a cat.. 5:1 

If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere 
he dies, he shall live no longer in monument, 
than the bell rings, and the widow weeps. 5:2 


M.N.D. 

The course of true love never did run smooth. 1 :i 

Sickness is catching; O, were favor so!. 1 :i 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. 

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 1 :i 
Bootless speed! When cowardice pursues- and 

valor flies. 2:2 

Who will not change a raven for a dove? .... 2:3 















22 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Reason and love keep little company together 

nowadays. 3:1 

From yielders all things catch. 3 :2 

Lord, what fools these mortal be! .. 3:2 

In the night, imagining some fear, 

How easy is a bush supposed a bear. 5:1 

Never anything can be amiss, 

When simpleness and duty tender it. 5:1 

It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. 5:1 

A mote will turn the balance. 5:1 


L.L.L. 

Fat paunches have lean pates. 1 :i 

Small have continual plodders ever won, 

Save base authority from others’ books. 1 :i 

Every godfather can give a name. 1 :i 

Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, 

sit thee down, sorrow!... 1 :i 

My father’s wit, and my mother’s tongue, assist 

me!. I:2 

All pride is willing pride. . 2:1 

Short-lived wits do wither as they grow. 2:1 

Many can brook the weather that love not the 

wind. 4 :2 

Vir sapit, qui pauca loquitur . 4:2 

Well, set thee down, sorrow!. 4:^ 

One drunkard loves another of the name. 4:3 

None offend, where all alike do dote. 4:3 

A true man, or a thief, that gallops so?. 4:3 

We cannot cross the cause why we were born. . . 4.:^ 

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. . . 4:3 

Sowed cockle reaped no corn. 4^ 

























PROVERBS 23 

Justice always whirls in equal measure. 4:3 

A light heart lives long. 5:2 

Past cure is still past care. 5 :2 

None are so surely caught, when they are catched, 

As wit turned fool. 5 :2 

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, 

As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. ... 5 .2 

He’s a god or a painter; for he makes faces. 5 .2 

A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue. 5 .*2 

Honest, plain words best pierce the ear of grief. . . 5 :2 

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 5 :2 

A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear 

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 

Of him that makes it. 5:2 


M.V. 

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. 1 :i 
The world—a stage, where every man must play 

a part. 1 :i 

I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no 

dog bark. 1 :i 

They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as 

they that starve with nothing. 1:2 

It is a good divine that follows his own instruc¬ 
tions.. 1:2* 

Holy men, at their death, have good inspirations. 1:2 

God made him, therefore let him pass for a man. 1:2 

Thrift is blessing, if men steal it not. .......... 113 

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. .. 113 

Hath a dog money ? . 1:3 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 2:2 

There is some ill a brewing towards my rest, .... 


















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SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


For I did dream of money-bags to-night. 2:5 

Fast bind, fast find. 2:5 

All things that are, are with more spirit chased 

than enjoyed . 2:6 

Love is blind. 2:6 

All that glisters is not gold. 2 :j 

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 2 :g 

Would’st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? 4:1 
The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the 

ground. 4:1 

To do a great right, do a little wrong. 4:1 

You take my house, when you do take the prop 
That doth sustain my house; you take my life, 

When you do take the means whereby I live. 4:1 

He is well paid that is well satisfied.*. . 4:1 

How far that little candle throws his beams! 

So shines a good deed in a naughty world. . . 5:1 

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, 

When neither is attended. 5:1 


A.Y.L.I. 


O how full of briars is this working-day world! 1 13 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 113 

Sweet are the uses of adversity. 2:1 

O, what a world is this, when what is comely 

Envenoms him that bears it! . 2:3 

Call me not fool till Heaven hath sent me fortune. 2 :y 
All the world’s a stage, . . . 

And one man in his time plays many parts. . . 2 \y 

He that wants money, means, and content, is 

without three good friends. 3 :2 

Good pasture makes fat sheep. 3:2 


















PROVERBS 25 

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind. 3:2 

Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight ? . . 3:5 

To have .seen much, and to have nothing, is to 

have rich eyes and poor hands. 4:1 

Very good orators, when they are out, they will 

spit. 4:1 

Men have died from time to time, and worms 

have eaten them, but not for love. 4:1 

Men are April when they woo; December, when 
they wed; maids are May when they are maids, 

but the sky changes when they are wives. 4:1 

Time is the old justice that examines all offenders, 

and let time try. 4:1 

We shall find a time—. 5:1 

It is meat and drink to me. 5:1 

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man 

knows himself to be a fool. 5:1 

Rich honesty dwells like a miser in a poor house, 

as your pearl in your foul oyster. 5 :4 

Your If is your only peace-maker; much virtue 

in//. 5-4 

Good wine needs no bush . . . 

A good play needs no epilogue. Epi. 


A.W.EW. 

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, 
excessive grief the enemy to the living. ...... 1 :i 

The hind, that would be mated by the lion, must 

die for love. 1 :i 

Full oft we see cold wisdom waiting on superflu¬ 
ous folly. 1 - i 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 


















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SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Which we ascribe to Heaven. I :i 

Beams are blessings. 1:3 

He must needs go that the devil drives. . .. 1:3 

Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no 

hurt. 1:3 

O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?. 2:1 

Proffers, not took, reap thanks for their reward. 2:1 

Miracles are past. 2 13 

A young man, married, is a man that’s marred. 2:3 
War is no strife to the dark house and the 

detested wife. 2 :3 

’Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth; 

But the plain, single vow, that is vowed true. 4:2 

Who cannot be crushed with a plot?. 4:3 

There’s place, and means, for every man alive. . . 4:3 

All’s well that ends well. 4:4 

A noble scar is a good livery of honor. 4:5 

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance 

dear. 5 :3 

That’s good that’s gone. 5 13 

Mine eyes smell onions. 5 13 


Let the world slide. 

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. 

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment. 
Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens 

life. 

Let the world slip; we shall ne’er be younger. . . 

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en. 

Our cake’s dough on both sides. 

There’s small choice in rotten apples. 


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PROVERBS 27 

Happy man be his dole! .. 1 : i 

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. . . 1:2 

Fears boys with bugs! . 1:2 

Though little fire grows great with little wind, 

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. . 2:1 

Wooed in haste ... to wed at leisure. 3:2 

A little pot, and soon hot. .. 4:1 

Winter tames man, woman* and beast. 4:1 

Thereby hangs a tale. 4:1 

The poorest service is repaid with thanks. ...... 4:3 

Pitchers have ears. 4:4 

My cake is dough. 5:1 

He that is giddy, thinks the world turns round. 5 :2 
A health to all that shot and missed. 5 :2 


W.T. 

A lady’s verily is as potent as a lord’s. 1:2 

Our praises are our wages. . ... 1:2 

Happy man be his dole! . 1:2 

He makes a July’s day short as December. 1:2 

’Tis safer to avoid what’s grown, than question 

how ’tis born. 1:2 

A sad tale’s best for winter. 2:1 

The silence often of pure innocence 

Persuades, when speaking fails. 2:2 

It is a heretic that makes the fire, 

Not she which burns in ’t. 2:3 

Innocence shall make false accusation blush, 

And tyranny tremble at patience. 3:2 

What’s gone and what’s past help, should be past 

grief. 3:2 

’Tis a lucky day, and we’ll do good deeds on ’t. 3:3 























28 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Better not to have had thee, than thus to want 

thee. 4:I 

There is some sap in this! . 4:3 

Let the law go whistle !. 4 13 

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft 

led by the nose with gold. 4:3 

The crown will find an heir. 5:1 


C.E. 

When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport, 

But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. 2 :2 

Every why hath a wherefore. 2:2 

There’s a time for all things. 2:2 

Time himself is bald, and therefore, to the world’s 

end, will have bald followers. 2:2 

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty 

dish. 3:1 

Small cheer—and great welcome, makes a merry 

feast. 

When fowls have no feathers, and fish have no fin. 3:1 

Slander lives upon succession. 3:1 

What simple thief brags of his own attaint? .... 3:2 

No evil lost is wailed when it is gone. 4:2 

He must have a long spoon, that must eat with 

the devil. 4.^ 

The venom clamors of a jealous woman— 

Poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth. . . 5:1 

Unquiet'meals make ill digestion. 5:1 


Mac. 

Can the devil speak the true?. j 



















PROVERBS 29 

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. 1:3 
Come what come may; 

Time and the hour runs through, the roughest 

day. 1:3 

There’s no art, 

To find the mind’s construction in the face. . . 1:4 

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent 

under it. 115 

This even-handed justice 

Commands the ingredients of our poisoned 
chalice, 

To our own lips. 1:7 

False face must hide what the false heart doth 

know.•.. 1:7 

The attempt, and not the deed, confounds us. .. 2:2 

The labor, we delight in, physics pain. 2:3 

There’s warrant in that theft 

Which steals itself, when there’s no mercy 

left. 2:3 

Nought’s had, all’s spent, 

Where our desire is got without content. 3 :2 

Things without remedy 

Should be without regard; what’s done is done. 3 :2 
Things, bad begun, make strong themselves by ill. 3 :2 

Blood will have blood. 3 ’.4 

Security is mortal’s chief est enemy. 3 :5 

By the pricking of my thumbs, 

Something wicked this way comes. 4:1 

The flighty purpose never^is o’ertook, 

Unless the deed go with it. 4:1 

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb up¬ 
ward. 4 :2 

The night is long that never finds the day. 4:3 















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SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


What’s done, cannot be undone. 5:1 

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles; 
infected minds 

To their deaf pillows will discharge their 

secrets. ^ :I 


K.J. 

War for war, and blood for blood, controlment 

for controlment. 1 ; i 

Truth is truth. ! :I 

Your father’s heir must have your father’s land. 1 :i 

Who dares not stir by day, must walk by night. 1 :i 

Well won is still well shot. 1 :i 

New-made honor doth forget men’s name's. 1 :i 

Sir Robert might have eat his part in me 
Upon Good Friday,—and ne’er broke his fast. 1 :i 

Courage mountefh with occasion. 2:1 

The hare . . . whose valor plucks dead lions by 

the beard. 2:1 

Grief is proud, and makes his owner stout. 3:1 

When law can d*o no right, 

Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong. 3:1 

Falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire. 3:1 

When fortune means to men most good, 

She lboks upon them with a threatening eye. . . 3 :4 

He that stands upon a slippery place, 

Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 3 

He that steeps his safety in true blood, 

Shall find but bloody safety, and untrue. 3 

Strong reasons make strong actions. 3:4 

Often times, excusing of a fault, 

Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 


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PROVERBS 31 

There is no sure foundation set on blood; 

No certain life achieved by other’s death. 4:2 

If you be afeard to hear the worst, 

Then let the worst, unheard, fall on your head. 4:2 
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, 

Make deeds ill done. 4:2 

Impatience hath his privilege... 413 


K.R.I1 

The more fair and crystal is the sky, 

The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 1 :i 

Lions make leopards tame. 1 :i 

That which in mean men we entitle—patience 

Is pale, cold cowardice in noble breasts. 1:2 

Truth hath a quiet breast. 113 

Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. . . 1:3 

Grief makes one hour ten. 1 .*3 

There is no virtue like necessity. 1:3 

Woe doth the heavier sit, 

Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. 113 

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 

The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. 113 

Fell sorrow’s tooth doth never rankle more, 

Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. . . 1 13 

Violent fires soon burn out themselves. 

Small showers last long, but sudden storms are 

short . 

He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes.... 

With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder. 2 :i 
Young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. 2:1 

Misery makes sport to mock itself. 2:1 

Love they to live, that love and honor have. 2:1 


















32 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


The ripest fruit falls first. 2:1 

By bad courses may be understood, 

That their events can never fall out good. 2:1 

Urge doubts to them that fear. 2:1 

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, 

Which show like grief itself, but are not so. .. 2 :2 

Everything is left at six and seven. 2 :2 

Hope to joy, is little less in joy, than hope en¬ 
joyed. 2:3 

Things past redress, are now past care. 2:3 

Heaven still guards the right. 3:2 

The worst is—death, and death will have his day. 3 :2 
Sweet love, changing, his property, 

Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. . . 3 :2 

Wise men ne’er wail their present woes, 

But presently prevent the ways to wail. 3 .2 

He does me double wrong, 

That wounds me with the flatteries of his 

tongue. 3 :2 

They well deserve to have, 

That know the strong’st and surest way to get. 3 13 
For what I have, I need to repeat; 

And what I want, it boots not to complain. . . 3 14 

Woe is forerun with woe. 3 :4 

Pride must have a fall. 3 .3 

They love not poison that do poison need. 5 :6 


iK.H.IV. 

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man re¬ 
gards it. j ;2 

’Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation. . . 1:2 

Give the devil his due! . T 

















PROVERBS 33 

If all the year were playing holidays, 

To sport would be as tedious as to work. 1:2 

Happy man be his dole! . 2:2 

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 

safety...• 2 13 

Youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. 2 :4 

Tell truth, and shame the devil. 3:1 

The end of life cancels all bands. 3 .2 

Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay. 3 :2 

As vigilant as a cat to steal cream. 4:2 

To the latter end of a fray, and the beginning of 
a feast, 

Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. 4:2 

Nothing can seem foul to those that win. 5:1 

Thou owest God a death. 5:1 

Treason is but trusted like the fox. 5 :2 

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. . . 5 ‘.4 

The better part of valor is—discretion. 5 14 


2K.H.IV. 

The posts . . . from Rumor’s tongues 

They bring smooth comforts false, worse than 

true wrongs. Iud. 

He, that but fears the thing he would not know, 

Hath, by instinct, knowledge from other’s 
eyes, 

That what he feared is chanced. 1 

Wake not a sleeping wolf. 1 

To wake a wolf, is as bad as to smell a fox. 1:2 

I were better to be eaten to death with rust, than 

to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. 1:2 
It never yet did hurt, 



















34 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope. .A 113 
A habitation giddy and unsure 

Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart. . . 1 13 

Past, and to come, seem best; things present, 

worst. 1 13 

Let the end try the man. 2:2 

A good heart’s worth gold... 2:4 

The undeserver may sleep, when the man of 

action is called on. 2:4 

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 3:1 

A man can die but once, ... We owe God a 
death; . . . He that dies this year is quit for 

the next. 3 :2 

A rotten case abides no handling. 4:1 

Against ill chances, men are ever merry; 

But heaviness foreruns the good event. 4:2 

Sudden sorrow serves to say thus,— 

Some good thing comes tomorrow. 4:2 

There’s never any of these demure boys come to 

any proof. 4:3 

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. 4:4 

’Tis seldom—when the bee doth leave her comb 

In the dead carrion. 4:4 

Will fortune never come with both hands full? .. 4:4 

If he be sick with joy, he will recover without 

physic. .... 4 -4 

A friend i’ the court is better than a penny in 

purse. 3:1 

A merry heart lives long. 5 13 

The ill wind that blows no man to good. 5 13 

Dead—as nail in door. 5 :3 

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. .. 5:5 




















PROVERBS 


35 

K.H.V. 

Miracles are ceased. i :i 

Men are merriest when they are from home. 1:2 

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. 2:1 
Treason and murder ever kept together, 

As two yoke-devils sworn to either’s purpose. 2 :2 

Trust none; for oaths are straws; men’s faiths 
are wafer-cakes, 

And hold-fast is the only dog. 2 :3 

Coward dogs most spend their mouths, when 
what they seem to threaten, runs far before 

them. 2:4 

Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. . . 2:4. 

Fortune is blind. 3 :6 

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the 

gentler gamester is the soonest winner. 3:6 

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. 3 :6 

Ill will never said well.• .. 3 : 7 

There is flattery in friendship. 3 :j 

Give the devil his due. 3 :y 

A pox of the devil. 3 :j 

A fool’s bolt is soon shot. 3 :j 

That’s a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast 

on the lip of a lion. 3 :y 

They will eat like wolves, and fight like devils. . . 3 :y 

’Tis good for men to love their present pains. . . 4:1 

Few die well, that die in battle. .. .X.. 4:1 

Every man that dies ill, the ill is upon his own 

head. . 4 :I 

The man, that once did sell his lion’s skin 

While the beast lived, was killed with hunting 

him. 4 : 3 

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. 4:4 — 



















36 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

All offences come from the heart. 4:8 

Nice customs curt’sy to great kings. 5:2 

Love is blind. 5 :2 


1 K.H.VI. 

Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they 

are gone. 2:2 

Soldiers’ stomachs always serve them well. 2 :3 

This quarrel will drink blood another day. 2 14 

Make my ill, the advantage of my good. 215 

Delays have dangerous ends. 3 .2 

Kings and mightiest potentates must die; 

For that’s the end of human misery. 3:2 

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive. 3 .-3 

Of all base passions, fear is most accursed. 5 .2 

She’s beautiful; and therefore to be wooed; 

She is a woman; therefore to be won. 5 :3 

Marriage is a matter of more worth, 

Than to be dealt in by attorneyship. 5 15 


2K.FI.VL 

Rancour will out. 1 :i 

Gold cannot come amiss, were she the devil. 1:2 

A crafty knave does need no broker. 1:2 

’Tis but a base, ignoble mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. . . 2:1 

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; . . . 

So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. 2:4. 

These few day’s wonder will be quickly worn. . . 2:4 

The world may laugh again. 2:4 





















PROVERBS 37 

Small curs are not regarded when they grin; 

But great men tremble when the lion roars. . . 3:1 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; 3:1 

The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. 3:1 

Who cannot steal a shape, that means deceit, ... 3:1 

A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. 3:1 

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. 3:1 

Give the loser leave to chide. .. 3:1 

That is good deceit 

Which mates him first, that first intends deceit. 3:1 

Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just. . . 3:2 

So bad a death argues a monstrous life. 3 13 

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.. 313 

Small things make base men proud. 4:1 

Drones suck not eagles’ blood, but rob beehives. 4:1 

True nobility is exempt from fear. 4:1 

There’s no better sign of a brave mind, than a 

hard hand. 4:2 

Beggary is valiant. 4:2 

Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy, 

be a good counsellor ? .4 -. 4:2 

Ignorance is the curse of God, 

Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to 

heaven. 4 : 7 

Great men have reaching hands. 4:7 

Dead as a door nail. 4:10 

Let them obey that know not how to rule. 5:1 

A subtle traitor needs no sophister. 5:1 


3K.H.VI. 

1 :i 


Patience is for poltroons, 



















38 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Such safety finds the trembling lamb, environed 

with wolves. i :i 

Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death. i 14 

Many strokes, though with a little axe, 

Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. 2:1 
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. . . 2 :2 

Things ill got had ever bad success. 2:2 

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. 2:5 

Whither fly the gnats, but to the sun ?. 2 :6 

What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? 

What makes robbers bold, but too much lenity ? 2:6 

Much rain wears the marble. 3:2 

O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow. 3 13 

Though usurpers sway the rule awhile, 

Yet Heavens are just, and time suppressed! 

wrongs. 313 

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 4:1 

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; 

It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 4:3 

Trust not him that hath once broken faith. 4:4 

Few men rightly temper with the stars. 4:6 

Many men, that stumble at the threshold, 

Are well foretold—that danger lurks within. . . 4:7 

When the fox hath once got in his nose, 

He’ll soon find means to make the body follow. 4 :j 

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. 4:7 

A little fire is quickly trodden out; 

Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. . . 4:8 

When the lion fawns upon the lamb, 

The lamb will never cease to follow him. 4:8 

The sun shines hot, and if we use delay, 

Cold, biting winter mars our hoped-for hay. . . 4:8 

The harder matched, the greater victory. 5:1 

















PROVERBS 


39 


Live we how we can, yet die we must. 5 :2 

Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss. 

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. . . 5 14 

What cannot be avoided, 

’Twere childish weakness to lament, or fear. . . 5 4 

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; 

The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 5 :6 

The bird, that hath been limed in a bush. 

With trembling wings misdoubted every bush. 5:6 


K.R.III. 

I run before my horse to market. 1:1 

O, wonderful, when devils tell the truth!. 1:2 

Cannot a plain man live?. 1 13 

Wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch. . . 113 

They that stand high, have many blasts to shake 
them; 

And, if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 1:3 
Curses never pass the lips of those that breathe 

them in the air... 113 

Talkers are no good doers.. 113 

’Tis better to be brief than tedious. 1:4 

It were lost sorrow, to wail one that’s lost. 2:2 

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, 

And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. . . 2:2 

None can cure their harms by wailing them. .... 2 :2 

Woe to that land that’s governed by a child! .. 2:3 

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their 

cloaks. 213 

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow 

apace.. 24 

Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. 2 4 















40 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Pitchers have ears. 2:4 

So wise so young, they say, do ne’er live long. .. 3:1 

Short summers lightly have a forward spring. . . 3:1 

To fly the boar, before the boar pursues, 

Were to incense the boar to follow us. 3:2 

There’s some conceit or other likes him well, 

When he doth bid good morrow with such spirit. 3 14 

Gold were as good as twenty orators. 4:2 

Fearful commenting is leaden servitor to dull de¬ 
lay ; 

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beg- 

s ar y. 4:3 

Why should calamity be full of words?. 4:4 

Still use of grief makes wild grief tame. 4:4 

Look, what is done cannot be now amended. . . 414 

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. . . 4:4 

Plain, and not honest, is too harsh a style. 4:4 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings. 5 :2 

The king’s name is a tower of strength. 5 13 

Conscience is but a word that cowards use. 


K.H.VIII. 


A man may weep upon his wedding day. Pro. 

Let your reason with your choler question. 1 :i 

To climb steep hills, requires slow pace at first. . . 1 :i 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 

That it do singe yourself. 1 :i 

The back is sacrifice to the load.. 1:2 

Your colt’s tooth is not cast yet. 1 .-3 

He was a fool; for he would needs be virtuous. . . 2:2 

Our content is our best having. 2:3 

Honor’s train is longer than his foreskirt. 2 13 



















PROVERBS 


All hoods make not monks. 3:1 

Truth loves open dealing. 3:1 

Let me speak myself, since virtue finds no friends. 3 :i 

He brings his physic after his patient’s death. . . 3 .2 

Press not a falling man too far. 3 :2 

Corruption wins not more than honesty. 3 :2 

Be just, and fear not. 3:2 

Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues 

We write in water. 4:2 

Not ever the justice and the truth o’ the question 
carries 

The due o’ the verdict with it. 5:1 

Men that make envy and crooked malice, nourish¬ 
ment, 

Dare bite the best. 5 .2 

’Tis a cruelty to load a falling man. 5 .2 

How gets the tide in ?. 5:3 

No day without a deed to crown it. 5 14 


T.&C. 


He that will have a cake out of the wheat, must 

tarry the grinding. 1:1 

Sorrow, that is couched in seeming gladness, 

Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. 1 :i 

Do you know a man if you see him?. 1:2 

Time must friend or end. 1:2 

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing. 1:2 

Blunt wedges rive hard knots. 1:3 

Two curs shall tame each other. 1:3 

My fingers itch. 2:1 

Ere your grandsires had nails on their toes. .... 2:1 

The wound of peace is surety, surety secure; 





















42 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

But modest doubt is called the beacon of the 

wise. 2:2 

What is aught, but as ’tis valued ?. 2 :2 

Pleasure, and revenge, have ears more deaf than 
adders 

To the voice of any true decision. 2:2 

The amity that wisdom knit not, folly may easily 

untie. 2: 3 

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give 

Before a sleeping giant.. 2:3 

He that is proud, eats up himself. 2:3 

The raven chides blackness. 2 13 

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw 

deep. 2:3 

To make a sweet lady sad, is a sour offence. 3:1 

Words pay no debts. 3 :2 

To fear the worst, oft cures the worst. 3 .2 

Few words to fair faith... 3 :2 

They are burs—they’ll stick where they are 

thrown. 3 : 2 

Pride hath no other glass to show itself, but pride. 3 13 
’Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with for¬ 
tune, 

Must fall out with men too. 3 :3 

For men, like butterflies, 

Show not their mealy wings, but to the summer. 3 13 
Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sigh¬ 
ing. 3:3 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 3 13 
Those wounds heal ill, that men do give them¬ 
selves.. 

A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on 

both sides, like a leather jerkin. 3^ 



















PROVERBS 43 

Speaking is for beggars. 3:3 

You do, as chapmen do, 

Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy. . . 4:1 

Half heart, half hand... 4:5 

The end crowns all. 4:5 

Still sweet love is food for fortune’s topth. .. 4:5 

The sun borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps 

his word. 3:1 

Minds, swayed by eyes,—are full of turpitude. 5:2 

Do not count it holy to hurt by being just. 5:3 

Life every man holds dear; but the brave man 

Holds honor far more precious-dear than life. 5:3 > 

One bear will not bite another. 5 :8 


T. of A. 

The fire i’ the flint shows not, till it be struck. .. 1 :i 

’Tis not enough to help the feeble up, 

But to support him after. 1 :i 

He that loves to be flattered, is worthy of the 

flatterer.. 1 :i 

There’s none can truly say, he gives, if he receives. 1:2 

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 1:2 

’Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind. 1:2 

There will little learning die, that day thou art 

hanged. 2:2 

Feast-won, fast-lost... 2:2 

Policy sits above conscience. 3:2 N 

Who bates mine honor, shall not know my coin 313 

Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house. 3 13 

Who can speak broader than he that hath no house 
to put his head in ? Such may rail against great 
buildings. 3 : 4 

















44 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Pity is the virtue of the law, 

And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 3:5 

To revenge is no valor, but to bear. 3 15 

He’s truly valiant, that can wisely suffer 

The worst that man can breathe. 3 :5 

He forfeits his own blood, that spills another. . . 3 .*5 

Soldiers should brook as little wrongs, as gods. . . 3 15 

The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind. 4:1 
Bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men. . . 4:2 

The learned pate ducks to the golden fool. 413 

Best state, contentless, hath a distracted and most 
wretched being, Worse than the worst, content. 4:3 
What viler thing upon the earth, than friends, 

Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends. . . 4 .-3 

Many so arrive at second masters, 

Upon their first lord’s neck. 4 

Then do we sin against our own estate, 

When we may profit meet, and come too late. 5:1 

At all times alike men are not still the same. . . 5:2 

Crimes, like lands, are not inherited. ^ 15 

What thou wilt, thou rather shalt enforce it with 
thy smile, 

Then hew to ’t with thy sword. 5 : - 


Poor suitors have strong breaths. 1 *x 

Hunger broke stone walls; . . . 

Dogs must eat; . . . 

Meat was made for mouths; . . 

The gods sent not corn for the rich men only. . . 1 n 

Brave death outweighs bad life. x -5 












PROVERBS 45 

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. .. 2:1 

We call a nettle, but a nettle; and 

The faults of fools, but folly. 2:1 

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and 

Most dignifies the haver. 2:2 

Better it is to die, better to starve, 

Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. 2 13 
What custom wills, in all things should we 

do’t. 2:3 

* One time will owe another. 3:1 

Manhood is called foolery, when it stands 

Against a falling fabric. 3:1 

Do not cry, havoc , where you should but hunt 

With modest warrant.,.. 3:1 

Honor and policy, like unsevered friends, 

I’ the war do grow together. 3 :2 

Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant 

More learned than the ears. 3 .2 

Extremity is the trier of spirits; 

Common chances common men can bear; 

When the sea is calm, all boats alike 

Show mastership in floating. 4:1 

I shall be loved when I am lacked. 4:1 

Mis fond to wail inevitable strokes, as his to laugh 

at them. 4:1 

The fittest time to corrupt a man’s wife is when 

she’s fallen out with her husband. 4:3 

The people deserve such pity of him, as the wolf 

Does of the shepherds. 4:6 

One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail. . . 4 :y 

He that hath a will to die by himself, fears it 

not from another. 5 :2 
















46 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

There is differency between a grub and a butter¬ 
fly ; yet your butterfly was a grub. 5 ’.4 


J. C. 

When Caesar says, Do this, it is performed. 1:2 

Brutus, with himself at war, 

Forgets the shows of love to other men. 1:2 

Men at some time are masters of their fates. . . 1:2 

’Tis meet that noble minds keep ever with their 
likes; 

For who so firm, that cannot be seduced? .. 1:2 

Every bondman in his own hand bears 

The power to cancel his captivity. 113 

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. . . 2:1 

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder. 2:1 

What can be avoided, 

Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods ? . . 2 :2 

Cowards die many times before their deaths; 

The valiant never taste of death but once. 2:2 

How hard it is for women to keep counsel? .... 2 14 

How weak a thing the heart of woman is!. 2:4 

Wilt thou lift up Olympus?. 3:1 

As fire drives out fire, so pity, pity. 3:1 

The evil that men do, lives after them; 

The good is oft interred with their bones. 3 .2 

Some, that smile, have in their hearts, millions of 

mischief. 4:1 

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. . . 4:2 

A friend should bear a friend’s infirmaties. 4:3 

Of your philosophy you make no use, 

If you give place to accidental evils. 4:3 

There is a tide in the affairs of .men, 

















PROVERBS 


47 


Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 413 

Nature must obey necessity... 413 

Good words are better than bad strokes. 5:1 

Since the affairs of men rest still uncertain, 

Let’s reason with the worst that may befall. . . 5:1 


A. £? C. 

There’s beggary in the love that can be reck¬ 
oned. 1 :i 

I love long life better than figs. 1:2 

The nature of bad news infects the teller. 1:2 

Things that are past, are done. 1:2 

Your old smock brings forth a new petticoat. . . 1:2 

The tears live in an onion, that should water this 

sorrow. 1:2 

In time we hate that which we often fear. 113 

The hated, grown to strength, are newly grown to 

love. 1 :3 

If the great gods be just, they shall assist 

The deeds of justest men... 2:1 

. . . What they do delay, they not deny. 

Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays 
The thing we sue for. 

We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise 
powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit, 

By losing of our prayers. 2:1 

Every time serves for the matter that is then born 

in it. 2:2 

When good will is showed, though it come too 
short, 

The actor may plead pardon. 2:5 















48 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Some innocents ’scape not the thunderbolt. 2:5 

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad 

news. 2 :5 

There is never a fair woman has a true face. . . 2:6 

Who seeks, and will not take, when once ’tis 
offered, 

Shall never find it more. 2 :y 

Who does i’ the wars more than his captain can, 

Becomes his captain’s captain. 3:1 

Would you praise Caesar, say,— Caesar . 3 :2 

Love, left unshown, is often left unloved. 3:6 

Celerity is never more admired, than by the neg¬ 
ligent. 3 : 7 

Against the blown rose may they stop their nose, 

That kneeled unto the buds. 3:11 

He that can endure to follow with allegiance a 
fallen lord, 

Does conquer him that did his master con¬ 
quer. 3:11 

Wisdom and fortune combating together, if that 
the former 

Dares but what it can, no chance may shake it. 3:11 
’Tis better playing with a lion’s whelp, 

Than with an old one dying. 3:11 

When we in our viciousness grow hard, 

The wise gods seel our eyes. 3:11 

When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it 

fights with. 3:11 

Never anger made good guard for itself. 4:1 

To business that we love, we rise betimes, 

And go to it with delight. 414 

The soul and body rive not more in parting, 

Than greatness going off. 4:11 

















PROVERBS 49 

Do not please sharp fate to grace it with your 

sorrows;. 4:12 

Wishers were ever fools. 4:13 

You, gods, will give us some faults to make us 

men. ^ :I 

The devil himself will not eat a woman; . . . 

... A woman is a dish for the gods, if the 
devil dress her not. 5 :2 


Cym. 

She shines not upon fools, lest the reflection 

should hurt her. 1:3 

Strange fowl light upon neighboring ponds. 1 15 

What shalt thou expect, to be depender on a thing 

that leans ?. 1:6 

Blessed be those, how mean soe’er, 

That have their honest wills, which seasons com¬ 
fort. 1:7 

Doubting things go ill, often hurt more 

Than to be sure they do. 1:7 

It would make any man cold to lose. . . . 

Winning would put any man into courage. 2:3 

We will nothing pay, for wearing our own noses. 3:11 

O, men’s vows are women’s traitors !. 3 ‘.4 

The lamb entreats the butcher. 3 :4 

Hath Britain all the sun that shines?. 3:4 

Foundations fly the wretched. 3:6 

Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards; hardness ever 

Of hardness is mother. 3:6 

Weariness can snore upon the flint, when restie 
sloth 

Finds the down pillow hard. 3 :6 



















50 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Discourse is heavy, fasting. 3 :6 

It is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to 

confer, in his own chamber. 4 :I 

Society is no comfort to one not sociable. 4 :2 

Love’s reason’s without reason. 4 :2 

Cowards father cowards, and base things sire 

base. 4 :2 

I wear not my dagger in my mouth. 4 :2 

Defect of judgment is oft the cure of fear. 4 :2 

Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, 

Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. 4:2 

Great grief’s medicine the less.-. 4 :2 

Thersities’ body is as good as Ajax, when neither 

is alive. 4 :2 

Some falls are means the happier to arise. 4:2 

Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steered. 4 '.3 

* The dish pays the shot. 5 : 4 

O the charity of a penny cord! ... of what’s 

past, is, and to come, the discharge. 5 : 4 

He that sleeps feels not the toothache. 5 : 4 

No bolts for the dead. 5 : 4 

Briefly die their joys, 

That place them on the truth of girls and boys. 5 15 
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will 

seize the doctor too. 5 : 5 

* Whom best I love, I cross; to make my gift 

The more delayed, delighted. 5 :4 


T.A. 

Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? 

Draw near them then in being merciful. 1:2 

Thanks, to men of noble minds, is honorable need. 1:2 

He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause. 1:2 






















PROVERBS 51 

She is a woman, therefore may be woo’d; 

She is a woman, therefore may be won. 2:1 

More water glideth by the mill than wots the 
miller of; 

Easy it is of a cut loaf to steal a shive. 2:1 

What you cannot, as you would, achieve, 

You must perforce accomplish as you may. . . 2:1 

First, thrash the corn, then after burn the straw. 2:3 

Every mother breeds not sons alike. 2:3 

The raven doth not hatch a lark. 2 13 

The better foot before. 2:4 

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, 

Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. . . 2:5 

A stone is silent, and offendeth not. 3:1 

Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace. . . 3:1 

Losers will have leave 

To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues. 3 :i 
To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal, 

But sorrow flouted at, is double death. 3:1 

Extremity of griefs would make men mad. 4:1 

Two may keep counsel, when the third’s away. . . 4:2 

As swift as swallow flies. 4:2 

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 

And is not careful what they mean thereby. .. 4:4 

Where the bull and cow, are both milk-white, 

They never do beget a coal-black calf. 5:1 

As true a dog as ever fought at head. 5:1 

As willingly as one would kill a fly. 5:1 

Where no friends are by, men praise them¬ 
selves.. 5 : 3 


Per. 

By custom what they did begin, 
















5 2 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Was, with long use, account no sin. iGow. 

Death remembered, should be like a mirror, 

Who tells us, life’s but breath, to trust it, error. i :i 
He’s no man on whom perfections wait, 

That knowing sin within, will touch the gate. . . i -I 
Vice repeated, is like the wandering wind, 

Blows dust in others’ eyes, to spread itself. .. 1 - 1 

If Jove stray, who dares say, Jove does ill? ... . I - 1 

Flattery is the bellows blows up sin. 1:2 

With patience bear 

Such griefs as you do lay upon yourself. 1:2 

’Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. 1:2 

I’ll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; 

Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack 

both. 1:2 

By relating tales of other’s griefs, 

See if ’twill teach us to forget our own. 1: 4 

Who digs hills because they do aspire, 

Throws down one mountain, to cast up a higher. 114 
One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, 

That may succeed as his inheritor. 1:4 

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. 114 

In hac spe vivo . 2 :2 

Opinion’s but a fool, that makes us scan 

The outward habit by the inward man. 2 .2 

Honor we love, For who hates honor, hates the 

gods above. 2 : 3 

Time’s the king of men, 

For he’s their parent, and he is their grave, 

And gives them what he will, not what they 

crave. 2 *3 

Men take women’s gifts for impudence. 2:3 














PROVERBS 53 

To wisdom he’s a fool that will not yield. 2:4 

We cannot but obey the powers above us. 3:3 

No visor does become black villainy, 

So well as soft and tender flattery. 414 

Truth can never be confirmed enough, 

Though doubts did ever sleep. 5:1 


K.L. 

Come not between the dragon and his wrath. ... 1 :i 

The bow is bent and drawn, make for the shaft. 1 :i 

Be Kent unmannerly, when Lear is mad. 1 :i 

Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sound 

Reverbs no hollowness. 1 :i 

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides; 

Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. 1 :i 
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide 
itself. . . . 

If it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. .. 1:2 

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend 

no good to us..V. 1:2 

Old fools are babes again. 113 

An thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thou’lt 

catch cold shortly. 1 *4 

Truth’s a dog that must to kennel. 1:4 

Nothing can be made out of nothing. 1:4 

He that keeps nor crust nor crum, 

Weary of all, shall want some. 14 

The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, 

That it had its head bit off by its young. 14 

May not an ass know when the cart draws the 
horse ? . 14 

















54 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. 1: 4 

Thou shouldst not have been old, before thou 

hadst been wise. 1: 5 

A tailor made thee!. 2:2 

Anger has a privilege. 2 :2 

None of these rogues, and cowards, but Ajax is 

their fool. 2:2 

A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels. . . 2:2 

Winter’s not gone yet, s if the wild geese fly that 

way. 2 : 4 

Fathers, that wear rags, Do make their children 
blind; 

But fathers, that bear bags, Shall see their chil¬ 
dren kind. 2 -4 

Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a 
hill, . . . but the great one that goes up the hill, 

let him draw thee after. 2 

Not being the worst, stands in some rank of praise. 214 
Allow not nature more than nature needs, 

Man’s life is cheap as beast’s. 2:4 

To wilful men, The injuries that they themselves 

procure, Must be their schoolmasters. 2 14 

There was never yet fair woman, but she made 

mouths in a glass. 3 :2 

The art of our necessities is strange, 

That can make vile things precious. 3:2 

For the rain it raineth every day.. 3:2 

The younger rises, when the old doth fall. 3 13 

Where the greater malady is fixed, the lesser is 

scarce felt. 3:4 

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. 3 '.4 

Beware the foul fiend. 3 :6 

He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, 


















PROVERBS 55 

a horse’s heels, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath. 3 :6 
Full oft ’tis seen, our mean secures us, 

And our mere defects prove our commodities. 4:1 
The worst is not, so long as we can say, This is 

the worst . 4:1 

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; 

They kill us for their sport. 4:1 

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; 

Filths savor but themselves. 4:2 

Proper deformity seems not in the fiend 

So horrid, as in woman. 4:2 

It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our con¬ 
ditions. 4:3 

A dog’s obeyed in office. 4:6 

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; 

Robes, and furred gowns, hide all. 4:6 

Men must endure their going hence, 

Even as their coming hither; ripeness is all. . . 5 :2 

To be tender-minded does not become a sword. . . 5 13 

Jesters do oft prove prophets. 5 :3 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 

Make instruments to scourge us. 5 :3 


R.&J. 

The weakest goes to the wall. i:t 

I will bite my thumb at them. 1 :i 

Sad hours seem long. 1 :i 

A right fair mark is soonest hit. 1 :i 

One fire burns out another’s burning, . . . 

Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning. 1:2 
You saw her fair, none else being by. 1:2 

















56 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Tis much pride, for fair without the fair within 

to hide. 1 

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. . . 1:4 

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. 2:1 

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 2:2 

What’s in a name?— That which we call a rose, 

By any other name would smell as sweet. 2 :2 

What love can do, that dares love attempt. 2:2 

At lovers’ perjuries, they say, Jove laughs. 2:2 

Love goes toward love, as school-boys from their 
books; 

But love from love, toward school with heavy 

looks.,. 2:2 

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, 

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. . . 213 

Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. . . 2 13 

Young men’s love then lies 

Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. . . 2 :3 

Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men. 2 13 

Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast. . . 213 

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. 2:4 

Violent delights have violent ends. 2:6 

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 2:6 

They are but beggars that can count their worth. 2:6 

A word and a blow. 3:1 

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. . . 3:1 

Well, death’s the end of all. 3 :3 

Well, we were born to die. 3 :4 

In a minute there are many days. 3 15 

All these woes shall serve 

For sweet discourses in our time to come. 3 15 

Some grief shows much of love; 

But much of grief shows still some want of wit. 3 15 

















PROVERBS 57 

Venus smiles not in a house of tears. 4:1 

What must be, shall be. 4:1 

’ i is an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. 4 .2 
She’s not well married, that lives married long; 

But she’s best married, that dies married young. 415 

Tempt not a desperate man. 5 :3 

How oft, when men are at the point of death, 

Have they been merry. 5 13 

Let mischance be slave to patience. 5 13 


Ham. 

Let your haste commend your duty. 1:2 

All that live must die, 

Passing through nature to eternity. 1:2 

Frailty, thy name is woman! . 1:2 

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes .... 113 

To thine own self be true; 

And it must follow, as the night the day, 

Thou canst not then be false to any man. 113 

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 115 

By indirections find directions out. 2 :1 

Brevity is the soul of wit. 2:2 

Happy, in that we are not overhappy; 

On fortune’s cap we are not the very button. . . 2 :2 

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking 

makes it so.... 2:2 

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and cere¬ 
mony. 2:2 

I know a hawk from a handsaw. 2 .2 

An old man is twice a child. 2:2 

Use every man after his desert, and who Shall 

’scape whipping? ... 2:2 




















58 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 

With most miraculous organ. 2:2 

The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. 2:2 
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. 3:1 
Be thou as chaste as ice, pure as snow, thou 

shalt not escape calumny. 3 :I 

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. . . 3:1 

Why should the poor be flattered ? . . . 

Where thrift may follow fawning. 3 :2 

The instances, that second marriage move, 

Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. . . 3 :2 

Who not needs, shall never lack a friend. 3 '.2 

Let the galled jade wince. 3 :2 

Some must watch, while some must sleep; 

Thus runs the world away. 3 :2 

Never alone did the king sigh, but with a general 

groan.. 3 : 3 

May one be pardoned, and retain the offence ? . . 3:3 

Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. . . 3 :3 

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 3:4 

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. 4:2 

The distracted multitude, who like not in their 

judgment, but their eyes. 4:3 

A man may fish with the worm that hath ate of a 
king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that 

worm. 4 : 3 

Rightly to be great, is, not to stir without great 
argument; 

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 

When honor’s at the stake. 4:4 

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 4:5 

















PROVERBS 59 

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 

But in battalions! . 4:5 

There’s such divinity doth hedge a king, 

That treason can but peep to what it would. .. 4:5 

Where the offence is, let the great axe fall. 415 

There lives within the very flame of love 
A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it; 

And nothing at a like goodness still. r. 4:7 

One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, so fast 

they follow. 4:7 

Your dull ass will not mend your pace with beat¬ 
ing.. 5-i 

The hand of little employment hath the daintier 

sense. 5:1 

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will 

undo us. 5:1 

Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, 

Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 5:1 

The cat will mew, the dog will have his day. 5:1 

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, 

Rough-hew them how we will. 5:2 

And a man’s life, no more than to say, one. 5:2 

Let a beast be lord of beasts, and this crib shall 

stand at the king’s mess. 5:2 

This lapwing runs away with the shell on his 

head. .. 5:2 

If your mind dislike anything, obey it. 5:2 

There is a special providence in the fall of a spar¬ 
row. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be 
not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, 
yet it will come; the readiness is all. 5:2 

















6 o 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Oth. 

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 

Cannot be truly followed. i 'i 

I am not what I am. i :i 

Men do their broken weapons rather use, than 

their bare hands. 1:3 

When remedies are past, the grief is ended, . . . 

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, 

Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 1:3 

The robbed, that smiles, steals something from 
the thief; 

He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. . . 1 13 

We lose it not, so long as we can smile. 1:3 

Words are words; I never yet did hear 

That the bruised heart was pierced through the 

ear. 1:3 

It is a silliness to live, when to live is a torment; 

Then have we a prescription to die, when death 

is our physician. 1:3 

The food that to him now is as luscious as 
locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as 

coloquintida. 1:3 

She never yet was foolish that was fair. 2:1 

Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in 

their, natures more than is native to them. 2:1 

Knavery’s plain face is never seen, till used. 2:1 

There be souls that must be saved, and there be 

souls must not be saved. 2:3 

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; 
oft got without merit, and lost without deserv¬ 
ing, . 2:3 

When devils will their blackest sins put on, 

They do suggest at first with heavenly shows. .. 2 13 















PROVERBS 61 

How poor are they that have not patience! .... 213 

Though other things grow fair against the sun, 

Yet fruits that blossom first, will first be ripe. 2:3 

Dull not device by coldness and delay. 2 13 

Poor, and content, is rich, and rich enough. 3 :3 

Trifles light as air, are, to the jealous, 

Confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. . . 3:3 

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, 

Let him not know it, and he’s not robbed at all. 3:3 

Honesty’s a fool, and loses what it works for. . . 3 13 

’Tis not a year or two shows us a man. 3 

They laugh that win. 4:1 

Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad, mend. 4:3 

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of 

use. 5:1 

Why should honor outlive honesty ? . 5 :2 

Who can control his fate? . 5:2 

If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee. 5 :2 


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PART II. FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 






Part II 


Short sentences, frequently quoted—or very quotable 
—not always recognized as from Shakespeare—classified 
as Familiar Quotations. 

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 

Tent. 

Blow till thou burst thy wind !. I :i 

The wills above be done! but I would fain die 

a dry death. i :i 

The very virtue of compassion.. . 1:2 

In the dark backward and abysm of time. 1:2 

Like one, who having, unto truth, by telling of it, 

Made such a sinner of his memory, 

To credit his own lie. 1:2 

Your tale would cure deafness. 1:2 

Cooling of the air with sighs. 1:2 

To run upon the sharp wind of the north: 

To do me business in the veins o’ the earth. .. 1:2 

I will ... do my sprighting gently. 1:2 

Water with berries in’t. 1:2 

No wonder, sir; but certainly a maid. 1:2 

At the first sight they have changed eyes. 1:2 

I have no ambition to see a goodlier man. 1:2 

Our hint of woe is common. 2:1 

Very falsely pocket up his report. 2:1 

For several virtues have I liked several women. . . 3:1 

65 
















66 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Here’s my hand,— And mine, with my heart 

in’t. .. 3 :I 

I’ll turn my mercy out of doors. 3 :2 

Even here will I put off my hope. 3 : 3 

Travellers ne’er did lie. 3 : 3 

Deeper than e’er plummet sounded. 3 : 3 

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, 

And our little life is rounded with a sleep. 4 :I 

A turn or two I’ll walk, to still my beating mind. 4- 1 

Steal by line and level. 4 :I 

Deeper than did ever plummet sound, I’ll drown 

my book. 5 :I 

I drink the air before me and return or e’er your 

pulse beat twice. 5 :I 

7 Tis a chronicle of day by day, 

Not a relation for a breakfast. 5 :I 

How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, 

That has such people in’t. 5 :I 

Sir, she’s mortal; 

But, by immortal Providence, she’s mine. 5 :I 

Prayer—which pierces so, that it assaults 

Mercy itself, and frees all faults. Epi. 


T.G.V. 

You are over boots in love.. i *i 

I have no other but a woman’s reason; 

I think him so, because I think him so. 1:2 

Since maids, in modesty, say No, to that 

Which they would have the profferer construe, 

Ay . 1.2 



















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 


What I will, I will, and there an end. 1:3 

Invisible—as a nose on a man’s face, ox a weather¬ 
cock on a steeple! . 2:1 

Though the chameleon love can feed on the air, 

I am one that am nourished by my victuals. .. 2:1 

I lay the dust with my tears. 213 

A fine valley of words, gentlemen, and quickly 

shot off. 2:4 

1 have fed upon this woe already. 3:1 

Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy . . . 

For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ 

sinews. 3:2 

Crossed with adversity. 4:1 

The music likes you not. 4:2 

The longest night that e’er I watched, and the 

most heaviest. 4:2 

’Tis pity, love should be so contrary. 4:4 

Who by repentance is not satisfied, 

Is nor of heaven nor earth; for these are 
pleased; 

By penitence th’ Eternal’s wrath’s appeased. 5:4 

Come not within the measure of my wrath. 5 ’.4 


M. W. W. 


All his successors, gone before him, have done’t; 

and all his ancestors, that come after him, may. 1 :i 
Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good 

gifts. 1 

There’s pippins and cheese to come. 1:2 

They shall be my East and West Indies. 1:3 

Abusing of God’s patience, and the king’s English. 1 ‘.4 

















68 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


To be up early and down late. i -4 

Thereby hangs a tale. 1 *4 

If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or 

two. 2:1 

We burn day-light. 2:1 

I love not the humor of bread and cheese. 2:1 

The world’s mine oyster. 2:2 

I do relent; what would’st thou more of a man? 2:2 

Old folks, you know, have discretion. 2:2 

Experience—a jewel that I have purchased at an 

infinite rate. 2:2 

Heaven prosper the right!. 3 :1 

Never stand, you had rather . 3 : 3 

Heaven so speed me in my time to come. 3 : 4 

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. 3 : 5 


Tw. N. 


There thy fixed foot shall grow. 1:4 

I myself am best, when least in company. 1:4 

That question’s out of *my part. 1 : 5 

The cruel’st she alive. 1 : 5 

O time, thou must untangle this, not 1. 2:2 

I smell a device. 2 13 

Spinsters and knitters in the sun. 2 :4 

Like patience on a monument, smiling at grief. . . 2:4 

I am, indeed, not her fool, but her corrupter of 

words. 3 :I 

You are not what you are. 3 :I 

I am not what I am. 3 :I 

I can no other answer make, but thanks, 

And thanks, and ever thanks. 3:3 


























FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 69 

Nightingales answer daws. 3:4 

It is Jove’s doings, and Jove make me thankful. . 3:4 

More matter for a May morning. 3 14 

A fiend, like thee, might bear my soul to hell. . . 3 14 

I hate ingratitude more in a man, than lying, vain¬ 
ness, drunkenness, or any taint of vice. 3 14 

If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep. 4:1 

I think nobly of the soul. 4:2 

Let your bounty take a nap. 5:1 

Grow a twenty-years-removed thing, while one 

would wink. 5:1 

Take thy fortunes up. 5:1 

One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons. . 5:1 

The rain it raineth every day. 5:1 


M. M. 


I do not like to stage me. 1 :i 

The words of Heaven;—on whom it will, it will; 

On whom it will not, so; yet still ’tis just. ... 1 13 

And liberty plucks justice by the nose. 1:4 

I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted. 115 

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the 
good 

We oft might win, by fearing to attempt. 115 

We must not make a scarecrow of the law. 2:1 

This will last out a night in Russia. 2:1 

His face is the worst thing about him. 2:1 

At war ’twixt will and will not. 2 :2 

Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority. 2 :2 

Blood, thou still art blood! . 2:4 

Death is a fearful thing. . . . 

And shamed life a hateful. 3:1 




















70 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge 


with dearer love.. 3 12 

I shall attend your leisure. 4 :I 

O place and greatness, millions of false eyes 

Are stuck upon thee!. 4:1 

Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd. . . 4:2 

’Tis an accident that heaven provides. 4:3 

A looker-on here in Vienna. 5 :I 

Attorneyed at your service. 5:1 


M. Ado . 


I see the gentleman is not in your books. 1 :i 

Not till God make men of some other metal than 

earth. 2:1 

I have a good eye, I can see a church by daylight. 2:1 
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but 

little happy, if I could say how much. 2:1 

Your grace is too costly to wear every day. 

I was born to speak all mirth, and no matter. 2:1 
There was a star danced, and under that was I 

born. 2:1 

When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not 

think I should live till I were married. 213 

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, 

but to read and write comes by nature. 3 13 

God send every one their heart’s desire!. 3 14 

I am as honest as any man living,—that is an old 

man and no honester than 1. 3:5 

Comparisons are odorous. 3:5 

It is a man’s office, but not yours. 4:1 

Talk with a man out at a window ?—a proper say¬ 
ing! . 4 :1 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 71 

He is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a 

lie, and swears to it. 4:1 

O that I had been writ down—an ass. 4:2 

I was not born under a rhyming planet. 5 .2 

Look, the gentle day, before the wheels of 
Phoebus, round about 

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. . . 5 .3 

Why, what’s the matter, that you have such a 

February face? . 5:4 

Dost thou think I care for a satire, or an epi¬ 
gram? . 5:4 

Man is a giddy thing. 5 .*4 


M. N. D. 

Chanting faint hymns to the cold, fruitless moon. 1 :i 
More tunable than lark to shepherd’s ear, 

When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds 

appear. 1 :i 

I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale. 1:2 

In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 2:2 

I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty min¬ 
utes. 2:2 

Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase. 2:2 

Weeds of Athens he doth wear. 2 13 

Out, loathed medicine ! Hated potion, hence ! .. 3 :2 

Cupid is a knavish lad, 

Thus to make poor females mad. 3:2 

I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. . . 4:1 

I shall reply amazedly. 4:1 

Most dear actors, eat no onions, nor garlic. 4:2 

The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, . . . The 
poet’s pen . . . 


















72 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Gives to airy nothing 

A local habitation and a name. 5:1 

You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear 
The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on 

floor. 5:1 

*Tis almost fairy time. 5:1 

As Pm an honest Puck. 5 .2 


L. L. L. 

Fame, that all hunt after in their lives. 1 :i 

At Christmas I no more desire a rose, 

Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows. 1 :i 

I am forsworn on mere necessity. 1 :i 

A man,—that hath a mint of phrases in his brain. 1 :i 

A man of fire-new words, fashion’s own knight. 1 :i 

Love is a familiar; love is a devil; there is no 

evil angel but love. 1:2 

His disgrace is to be called a boy; but his glory 

is to subdue men. 1:2 

Thy own wish wish I thee in every place. 2:1 

He is Cupid’s grandfather, and learns news of him. 2:1 

He came, saw, and overcame. 4:1 

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred 
in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; 

he hath not drunk ink. 4:2 

Love, whose month is ever May. 413 

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer 

than the staple of his argument. 5:1 

I smell false Latin. 5:1 

He (Cupid) hath been five thousand years a boy. 5:2 

m O, I am stabbed with laughter. 5:2 

' Blow like sweet roses in this summer air. 5 .2 

He speaks not like a man of God’s making. 5 .2 




















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 73 

A world-without-end bargain. 5 :2 

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs 
of Apollo. 5 :2 


M. V. 

You have too much respect upon the world. 

They lose it, that do buy it with much care. . . 1 :i 

Sometimes from her eyes, I did receive fair 

speechless messages. 1 :i 

I dote on his very absence. 1:2 

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, 
walk with you,—but I will not eat with you, 

drink with you, nor pray with you. 1:3 

I like not fair terms, and a villain’s mind. 1:3 

Pray thee, take pain to allay with some cold 
drops of modesty 

Thy skipping spirit. 2 :2 

Fortune now to my heart’s hope! . 2:9 

The world is still deceived with ornament. 3:2 

Turn two mincing steps into a manly stride. 3 :4 

This making of Christians will raise the price 

of hogs. 3:5 

The best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence; 
and discourse grow commendable in none only 

but parrots.*. 3:5 

The fool hath planted in his memory an army of 

good words. 3 

The poor rude world hath not her fellow. 3:5 

^So young a body with so old a head. 4:1 

The quality of mercy is not strained. 4:1 

^How much more elder art thou than thy looks ! . . 4:1 

Is it so nominated in the bond?. 4:1 




















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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank. 5:1 

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. 5 :I 

The man that hath no music in himself . . . 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; 

Let no such man be trusted. 5 :I 

By these blessed candles of the night. 5 :I 

My soul upon the forfeit. 5 :I 

You drop manna in the way of starved people. .. 5 :I 


A.Y.L.I. 


Let us sit and mock the good housewife, For¬ 
tune, from her wheel . . . 

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the 

lineaments of nature. 1:2 

Now unmuzzle your wisdom. 1:2 

With his mouth full of news. 1:2 

Your heart’s desire be with you. 1:2 

You mean to mock me after; you should not have 

mocked me before . 1:2 

Hereafter, in a better world than this, 

I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. 1:2 

Not a word?— Not one to throw at a dog. 1:3 

Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. . . 2:1 

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 

’Tis just the fashion. 2:1 

He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently 

caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! 2 13 

Now am I in Arden. 214 

We, that are true lovers, run into strange capers. 2:4 
Here shall he see 
No enemy 














FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 75 

But winter and rough weather. 2 15 

And thereby hangs a tale. 2:7 

We have seen better days; and have with holy 

bell been knolled to church. 2\y 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind 

Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude. 2:7 
Take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink 

thy tidings... 3:2 

Do you not know I am a woman ? When I think, 

I must speak. 3:2 

I do desire we may be better strangers. 3:2 

What stature is she of? Just as high as my 

heart. 3 :2 

The very ice of chastity is in them. 3 .4 

As those that fear they hope, and know they fear. 5 14 
Then is there mirth in heaven, When earthly 
things, made even, Atone together. 5 :4 


A.W.E.W. 


Love all, trust a few, ... Be checked for silence, 

but never taxed for speech. 1 :i 

Then we wound our modesty, and make foul the 
clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves 

we publish them. 1:3 

That is the brief and the tedious of it. 2 13 

Lord have mercy on thee for a hen. 2:3 

Where death and danger dog the heels of worth. 3 14 
Disgraces have of late knocked too often at my 

door. 4 :I 

Came you off with so little?. 4 :I 

The web of our life is of mingled yarn, good and 
ill together. 4 : 3 



















76 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


What a past-saving slave is this! . 4:3 

I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not 

much skill in grass. 4:5 

The flowery way, that leads to the broad gate, and 

the great fire. 4:5 

The inaudible and noiseless foot of time—. 5 13 

I am wrapped in dismal thinkings. 5 :3 

Every feather starts you. 5 :3 


TS. 

From all such devils, good Lord deliver us! . ... 1 :i 

O this learning! what a thing it is! . 1:2 

Do as adversaries do in law,—strive mightily, 

but eat and drink as friends. 1:2 

I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, 

And, for your love of her, lead apes in hell. . . 2:1 

We will have rings, and things, and fine array. . . 2:1 

Be mad and merry—or go hang yourselves. 3 :2 

She prayed—that never prayed before. 4:1 

He kills her in her own humor. 4:1 

The way to kill a wife with kindness. 4:1 

Tis the mind that makes the body rich. 4:3 

Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!. 5 :2 

Like the greyhound, that runs himself, and 
catches for his master. 5 :2 


W.T. 

My heart dances; but not for joy,—not joy. .. 1:2 

Sighted like the basilisk. 1:2 

Good expedition be my friend. 1:2 

I have drunk, and seen the spider. 2:1 























FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 77 

Slander, whose sting is sharper than the sword’s. 2 13 

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes. 3 :2 

Apollo be my judge!. 3:2 

I shall be hated to report it.. 3:2 

Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and 
take 

The winds of March with beauty. 4:3 

He utters them as he had eaten ballads. 4:3 

I’ll queen it no inch further. 413 

So we profess ourselves to be the slaves of chance, 
and flies 

Of every wind that blows. 4:3 

Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. 4:3 

The play so lies, that I must bear a part. 4 13 

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so some¬ 
times by chance. 4:3 

There was speech in their dumbness. 5 :2 

What I did not well, I meant well. 5 13 

Still sleep mocked death. 5 13 

If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating. 5 13 


C.E. 

To speak my griefs unspeakable. 1 :i 

To bear the extremity of dire mishap! . 1 :i 

I commend you to your own content. 1:2 

Fie, how impatience low’reth in your face! .... 2:1 

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! .... 2:1 

Now your jest is earnest!. 2:2 

As plain as the plain, bald pate of father Time 

himself. 2:2 

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine. 2 :2 

There is something in the wind. 3:1 

























78 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

In despite of mirth, mean to be merry. 3:1 

Be secret-false. 3:2 

Trudge, pack, and be gone. 3:2 

And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were. 4:2 

Time comes stealing on by night and day. 4 :2 

God give you good rest. 4:3 

Of very reverend reputation, of credit infinite, 

highly beloved. 5:1 

You all have drunk of Circe’s cup. 5:1 

Time’s deformed hand hath written strange de¬ 
features in my face. 5:1 

She shall be my sister, not my wife. 5:1 

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother. 5:1 


Mac. 

When shall we three meet again? . 1 :i 

Fair is foul, and foul is fair; 

Hover through the fog and filthy air. 1 :i 

What haste looks through his eyes! . 1:2 

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. 113 

Have we eaten of the insane root, that takes the 

reason prisoner ?. 1:3 

And nothing is, but what is not. 1:3 

Nothing in his life became him, like the leav¬ 
ing it. 1: 4 

The milk of human kindness. 1:5 

If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well 

It were done quickly. 1:7 

We’d jump the life to come. 117 

The deep damnation of his taking off. i:y 

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, 

And falls on the other—. 1:7 
























FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 79 

Was the hope drunk, wherein you dressed your¬ 
self ? . 1 \j 

Letting I dare not , wait upon I woidd . 1:7 

I dare do all that may become a man. 1:7 

Screw your courage to the sticking-place. 1:7 

Memory, the warder of the brain. 1:7 

There’s husbandry in heaven; their candles are 

all out. 2:1 

Shut up in measureless content. 2:1 

Is this a dagger, which I see before me?. 2:1 

Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleave of care— 2:2 

How is’t with me, when every noise appals me ? 2:2 
The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. . . 2 13 

My young remembrance cannot parallel a fellow 

to it.. v.Y. . 213 

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. .... 2:3 

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious, 

Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. . . 2:3 

In the great hand of God I stand. 2 13 

Daggers in men’s smiles... 213 

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus— . . 3:1 

After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well. 3:2 

Cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in, to saucy 

doubts and fears. 3 :4 

Now, good digestion wait on appetite. 3:4 

Thou canst not say, I did it. 3 :4 

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes. 314 

Stand not upon the order of your going. 3 :4 

A kind good night to all. 3:4 

Make assurance double sure, and take a bond of 

fate. 4:1 

To the crack of doom. 4:1 

The very firstlings of my heart shall be the first- 






















8 o 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


lings of my hand. 4:1 

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 4:3 

Such welcome and unwelcome things at once, ’tis 

hard to reconcile. 4:3 

Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever, 

Which shall possess them with the heaviest 
sound 

That ever yet they heard. 4:3 

Give sorrow words; The grief that does not 
speak, 

Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it 

break. 413 

Be this the whetstone of your sword; let grief 

Convert to anger. 4:3 

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this 

little hand. 5:1 

Where gott’st thou that goose look ?. 5 13 

Those linen cheeks of thine are counsellors to 

fear.,. 5 -3 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ? . . 5 13 

Throw physic to the dogs! . 5 13 

Applaud thee to the very echo. 513 

Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. 5 13 

Constrained things, whose hearts are absent. . . 5 14 

Hang out our banners on the outward walls. 5 :5 

I have supped full with horrors. 5 15 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow . . . 

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. . . . 

Life’s ... a poor player, 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. 5:5 

The equivocation of the fiend, that lies like truth. 5 :5 

At least we’ll die with harness on our back. . . 5 15 















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 81 

Let me find him, fortune! More I beg not. .. 5 \ j 

That keep the word of promise to our ear, 

And break it to our hope. 5 \ j 

Lay on, Macduff; and damned be him that first 
cries 

Hold, enough . 5 \j 

Why, then, God’s soldier be he. 5:7 


K.J. 

A hazard of new fortunes. 2:1 

Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, 

And say,—there is no sin, but to be rich; 

And being rich, my virtue then shall be, 

To say,—there is no vice, but beggary. 2:2 

Fellow, be gone; I cannot brook thy sight; 

This news hath made thee a most ugly man. . . 3:1 

Here I and sorrow sit. 3:1 

Play fast and loose with faith.. 3:1 

Ah, alack! how new is husband in my mouth ! . . 3:1 

A grave unto a soul. 3:4 

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 

Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 3-4 

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw 
a perfume on the violet ... Is wasteful and 

ridiculous excess. 4:2 

Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels. 4:2 

The very top, the height, the crest, or crest unto 

the crest . 4:3 

I am stifled with this smell of sin. 4:3 

Now . . . doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, 

And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace. 4:3 

Into the purse of rich prosperity. 5 :2 


















82 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


I am no woman ; I’ll not swoon at it.. 5 

’Tis strange that death should sing. 5 7 

Marry, now my soul hath elbow-room. 5 7 

I beg cold comfort. 5 7 

Dead news in as dead an ear. 5 7 

This England never did (nor never shall) 

Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. 5 7 


K.R.IL 

In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. i -i 

’Tis not the trial of a woman’s war, 

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues,. I :i 

The purest treasure mortal times afford 
Is—spotless reputation; . . . 

Take honor from me, and my life is done. i :i 

All places that the eye of heaven visits 

Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. . . 1:3 

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men 

Enforce attention, like deep harmony. 2:1 

The setting sun and music at the close. 2:1 

Comfort’s in heaven; and we are on the earth 
Where nothing lives but crosses, care and 

grief. 2 :2 

Numbering sands, and drinking oceans dry. 2 :2 

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. . . 2 7 

Eating the bitter bread of banishment. 3:1 

As a long-parted mother with her child 
Plays fondly with her tears, and smiles, in meet¬ 
ing, 

So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth. 3:2 

Fearing dying, pays death servile breath. 3:2 

Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels. . . 4:1 



















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 83 

Good king,—great king,—(and yet not greatly 

good) . 4:1 

A beggar begs, that never begged before. 5 13 

Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels. 5 :3 

Thus play I, in one person, many people, and 

none contented. 5 15 

For now the devil, that told me—I did well, 

Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell. 5 :5 


iK.H.IV. 


Farewell, thou latter spring! Farewell, All-hal- 

lown summer! . 1:2 

Pluck up drowned honor by the locks. . .... 113 

When his infant fortune came to age. 1:3 

I know a trick worth two of that. 2:1 

We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk in¬ 
visible. 2:1 

The veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth. 2 :2 

Constant you are; but yet a woman. 2:3 

A plague of all cowards! . 2 :4 

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries ... 2:4 

Mark—now, how plain a tale shall put you down. 2 14 

I was a coward on instinct. 2:4 

What does gravity out of his bed at midnight ? 2:4 

My sweet creature of bombast. 2:4 

The devil rides upon a fiddle-stick. 2:4 

I’d rather be a kitten, and cry—mew. 3:1 

Such a deal of skimble-skamble stufif. 3:1 

^Good manners be your speed ! .. 3 :I 

The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team 

Begins his golden progress in the east. 3:1 

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? . 3:3 






















8 4 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour. 4:1 

As full of spirit as the month of May, 

And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. 4:1 

Food for powder, food for powder. 4:2 

This seeming brow of justice. 4:3 

I could be well content to entertain the lag-end 
of my life 

With quiet hours. 5:1 

Rebuke and dread correction wait on us. 5:1 

Spoke your deservings like a chronicle. 5 :2 

I profess not talking. 5:2 

Is’t a time to jest and dally now?. 5:3 

I could have better spared a better man. 5 14 

Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying! . . 5 :4 


2K.H.IV. 


The first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a 

losing office. 1 *1 

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the 

saltness of time. 1:2 

I can get no remedy against this consumption of 
the purse. . . . 

The disease is incurable. 1:2 

Eaten me out of house and home. 2:1 

Marry, the immortal part needs a physician; . . . 

Though that be sick, it dies not. 2 .2 

Thus we play the fools with the time; and the 
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock 

us. 2 :2 

He was the mark and glass, copy and book, 

That fashioned others. 2 13 

As valiant as the wrathful dove. 3 :2 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 85 

Lord, lord, how subject we old men are to this 

vice of lying. 3 :2 

Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet ? 4:3 

I came, saw, and overcame. 4:3 

Thy wish was father to that thought. 4:4 

I heard a bird so sing. 5 15 


K.H.V. 


O, for a muse of fire!. Cho. 

Consideration like an angel came, 

And whipped the offending Adam out of him. 1 :i 

Awake the sleeping sword of war. 1:2 

Now sits Expectation in the air. 2:Ch 

Base is the slave that pays. 2 :1 

Service shall with steeled sinews toil; 

And labor shall refresh itself with hope. 2:2 

And ’a babbled of green fields. . .. 2 13 

Covering discretion with a coat of folly. 2:4. 

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once 

more... .y. . 3 :I 

It is no time to discourse. 3 .2 

He scorns to say his prayers, lest ’a should be 

thought a coward... 3:2 

Conscience wide as hell. 3 :3 

’A uttered as prave ’ords at the pridge, as you 

shall see in a summer’s day. 3 :6 

From the rising of the lark to the lodging of 

the lamb. 3 : 7 

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 

Would men observingly distil it out. 4:1 

I and my bosom must debate awhile. 4:1 

If it be a sin to covet honor, 






















86 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


I am the most offending soul alive. 4 : 3 

We would not die in that man’s company. 

That fears his fellowship to die with us. 4 : 3 

All my mother came into mine eyes, and gave 

me up to tears. 4 : 6 

As goot a gentleman as the tevil is. 4 : 7 

Swelling like a turkey-cock. 5 :I 

Peace, dear nurse of, arts, plenties, and joyful 

births. 5 :2 

A fellow of plain and uncoined constancy. 5 :2 

These fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme 

themselves into ladies’ favors. 5 :2 

A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, 

... a fair face will wither; but a good heart 
is the surTand moon; or rather the sun, and not 

the moon ; for it never changes. 5 :2 

God, the best maker of all marriages. 5 :2 


1K.H.VI. 


Hung be the heavens with black! . 1 :i 

Combat with adverse planets in the heavens. 1 :i 

England all Olivers and Rowlands bred. 1:2 

Glory is like a circle in the water. 1:2 

Was Mahomett inspired with a dove ? . 1:2 

With his name the mothers still their babes. 213 

I’ll note you in my book of memory. 2:4. 

The arbitrator of despairs, 

Just death, kind umpire of men’s miseries. 215 

Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire. 4:2 

Pale destruction meets thee in the face. 4:2 

Ringed about with bold adversity. 4:4 

Thou antic death, which laugh’st us here to scorn. 4:7 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS v 87 

Thou maiden youth, be vanquished by a maid. . . 4 '.7 

I could be well content to be mine own attorney 

in this case... 5 : 3 

Must he be then as shadow of himself ?. 5:4 

So worthless peasants bargain for their wives, 

As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse. 5 0 


2K.H.VI. 


Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart. 1 :i 
In winter’s cold, and summer’s parching heat. . . 1 :i 

Pride went before, ambition follows him. 1 :i 

Myself have limed a bush for her. 1:3; 

God in mercy so deal with my soul, 

As I in duty love my king and country. 1:3 

Wizards know their times; deep night, dark night, 1:4 
To see how God in all his creatures works! . .. 2:1 

O God, seest thou this, and bear’st so long! .... 2:1 

My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet. 2 13 

After summer, evermore succeeds 

Barren winter, with his wrathful, nipping cold. 214 

The map of honor, truth, and loyalty! . 3:1 

You but warm the starved snake, 

Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your 

hearts. 3 :I 

Art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf? .. 3:2 

Where thou art, there is the world itself. 

And where thou art not, desolation. 3:2 

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day 

Is crept into the bosom of the sea,. 4 :I 

Argo, their thread of life is s.pun. 4 :2 

First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. 4 - 2 

Thou hast men about thee, that talk of a noun, 



















88 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


and a verb, and such abominable words, as no 

Christian ear can endure to hear. 4 :J 

Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro, as 

this multitude? . 4:8 

My heart is turned to stone and, while ’tis mine, 

It shall be stony. 5:2 


3K.H.VI. 


’Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; . . . 1:4 

’Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; . . . 1:4 

’Tis government, that makes them seem divine; 1:4 

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible; .... 1:4 

These heavy looks foretell 

Some dreadful story hanging on their tongue; 2:1 

I drowned these news in tears. 2:1 V 

Grief more than common grief. 2 :5 

Here burns my candle out. 2:6 

Let me embrace these sour adversities. 3:1 

My crown is called content. 3:1 

A ten days’ wonder!— That’s a day longer than 

a wonder lasts. 3 :2 

I can add colors to the Chameleon. 3:2 

Yield not thy neck to fortune’s yoke. 3 13 

Birds of a. self-same feather. 313 

We are advertised by our loving friends.. 5 13 


K.R.III. 


Now is the winter of our discontent. 1 :i 

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled 

front. 1 :i 

Weak, piping time of peace. 1 :i 



















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 89 

Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost. 1:2 

No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity. 1:2 

Let me have some patient leisure to excuse myself. 1:2 

All the world to nothing! . 1:2 

Framed in the prodigality of nature. 1:2 

Because I cannot flatter and speak fair. 113 

Since every Jack became a gentleman. 1:3 

So just is God, to right the innocent. 1:3 

Can curses pierce the clouds, and enter heaven? 

Why, then give way, dull clouds, to my quick 

curses. 1 -3 

The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! 1 13 

Awake God’s gentle-sleeping peace. 1:3 

Seen a saint, when most I play the devil. 1:3 

That grim ferryman which poets write of. 1:4 

Certain dregs of conscience are yet within me. 1:4 

Spoke like a tall fellow. 1:4 

He holds vengeance in his hand, 

To hurl upon their heads that break his law. .. 1:4 

Relent! ’tis cowardly, and womanish. 

Not to relent, is beastly, savage, devilish. 1:4 

How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands! . . 1:4. 

In common, worldly things, ’tis called ungrateful, 

With dull unwillingness to repay a debt. 2:2 

And make me die a good old man!— 

That is the butt-end of a mother’s blessing. .. 2 :2 

By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust en¬ 
suing danger. 2:3 

Three times today my foot-cloth horse did 

stumble! . 3 : 4 

Play the maid’s part, still answer nay, and take it. 3 7 
Death and destruction dog thee at the heels! .... 4:1 

I am not in the giving vein to-day. 4 -2 



















90 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Fiery expedition be my wing. 4 : 3 

Be opposite all planets of good luck!. 4 : 4 

Shall I be tempted of the devil thus ?. 4 : 4 

Relenting fool, and shallow, changing—woman! 4:4 

That high All-seer which I dallied with, . . . 

Hath given in earnest what I begged in jest. . . 5 :I 

The weary sun hath made a golden set, . . . 

Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow. 5 : 3 

The blind cave of eternal night... S : 3 

The silent hours steal on, 

And flaky darkness breaks within the east. 5 13 

Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow !. 5 13 

Fool, of thyself speak well. 5 : 3 

The early village cock hath twice done salutation 

to the morn. 5 :3 

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse. 5:4 

Smooth-faced peace, with smiling plenty, and 
fair, prosperous days. 5 :4 


K.H.VIII. 


Those that can pity, here 

May, if they think it well, let fall a tear. Pro. 

I was my chamber’s prisoner. 1 :i 

No man’s pie is freed from his ambitious*finger. 1 :i 
Anger is like a full hot-horse, who being allowed 
his way, 

Self-nettle tires him. 1:1 

Repeat your will, and take it. 1:2 

Things to strike honor sad. .. 1:2 

There’s something more would out of thee, what 

say’st ?. 1 :2 

These remnants of fool and feather. 1:3 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 91 

A good digestion to you all. 1:4 

His conscience has crept too near another lady. .. 2:2 

Have great care I be not found a talker. 2:2 

You would not be a queen ?. 2:3 

More than my all is nothing. 2 .3 

You have your mouth filled up, before you open it. 213 

With your theme, I could o’ermount the lark. . . 2 :3 

O, good my lord, no Latin. 3:1 

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, 

That no king can corrupt. 3:1 

He appears, as I could wish mine enemy. 3 .2 

His thinkings are below the moon. 3 :2 

O negligence, fit for a fool to fall by!. 3 :2 

Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! . . 3 :2 

Comes a frost, a killing frost. 3:2 

Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,. . 3:2 

A peace above all earthly dignities, 

A still and quiet conscience. 3:2 

Sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. 3 :2 

Fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels. 3 :2 

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate 

thee. 3 12 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I 
served my king, 

He would not in mine age have left me naked 

to mine enemies. 3 12 

I cannot blame his conscience. .. 4 :I 

I am stifled with the mere rankness of their joy. 4:1 

Had their faces been loose, this day they had been 

lost. 4 :I 

Give him a little earth for charity. 4 :2 

He gave his honors to the world again, 

His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace. 4:2 



















92 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Found the blessedness of being little. 4 :2 

’Tis like a pardon after execution. 4 :2 

I must think of that, which company would not 

be friendly to. 5 :I 

The tidings that 1 bring will make my boldness 

manners. 5 :I 

He has strangled his language in his tears. 5 :I 

We all are men ... few are angels. 5 :2 

Ye blew the fire that burns ye. 5 :2 


T.&C. 

There my hopes lie drowned. i :i 

I have had my labor for my travel. i :i 

Our doubtful hope, our convoy, and our bark. . . I :i 

He will weep you, an ’twere a man born in April. i :2 

It does a man’s heart good. 1:2 

Women are angels, wooing. 1:2 

As like as Vulcan and his wife. 1 .3 

I have a young conception in my brain. 1 13 

You fur your gloves with reason. 2:2 

Young men, whom Aristotle thought unfit to hear 

moral philosophy. 2:2 

The common curse of mankind, folly and igno¬ 
rance. 2:3 

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy. 2 13 

I’ll pash him over the face. 2:3 

I’ll pheeze his pride. 2 13 

This love will undo us all. O Cupid, Cupid, 

Cupid! . 3:1 

Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks 

Staying for waftage. 3:2 























FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 93 

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. 3 :2 

Who shall be true to us, when we are so unsecret 

to ourselves?. 3 :2 

Fortune and I are friends. 3 : 3 

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, 

Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. 3 : 3 

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred; 

And I myself see not the bottom of it. 3 : 3 

I had rather be a tick in a sheep, than such a 

valiant ignorance. 3 : 3 

The busy day, waked by the lark, hath roused the 

ribald crows, . 4 :2 

The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste. 4 : 4 

Have the gods envy?. 4 : 4 

Something may be done, that we will not; 

And sometimes we are devils to ourselves. 4 : 4 

If not Achilles, nothing,— Therefore Achilles! 4:5 

By Mars his gauntlet, thanks!. 4 : 5 

Good old chronicle, that hast so long walked hand 

in hand with time. 4 : 5 

Wert thou an oracle to fell me so, I’d not believe 

thee. 4 : 5 

To such as boasting show their scars, a mock is 

due. 4 : 5 

I have important business, the tide whereof is now. 5 :i 

Let it not be believed for womanhood. 5 :2 

You have a vice of mercy in you, 

Which better fits a lion than a man. 5 : 3 

The dragon.wing of night o’erspreads the earth. 5:9 

Hector is gone! Who shall tell Priam so,—or 

Hecuba?. 5 :I1 

Let him, that will a screech-owl aye be called, 



















94 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Go into Troy, and say there— Hector's dead. . . 5 :n 

I’ll haunt thee like a guilty conscience still. 5 :I1 


T. of A. 

How goes the world ?— It wears, sir, as it grows. 1 :i 

I am not of that feather. 1 :i 

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss 

On faint deeds, hollow welcomes. 1:2 

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men. . . 1:2 

4 

I pray for no man but myself. 1:2 

We are born to do benefits. 1:2 

They are mad women. 1:2 

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, 

It turns in less than two nights?. 3 :i 

You must consider that a prodigal course 

Is like the sun’s; but not, like his, recoverable. 3 14 

The swallow follows not summer more willing. . . 3 :6 

We have seen better days.. 4:2 

I do wish thou wert a dog, that I might love thee. 4:3 
When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt 

be welcome. 4:3 

Thou singly honest man !. 413 

Promising is the very air of the time; . . . 

Performance is ever the duller for his act. .... 5:1 

What a god’s gold! . 5:1 

Have I once lived to see two honest men?. 5 :i 

Speak, and be hanged! .. 5 :2 

I was writing of my epitaph. 5 .2 

Pass by, and curse thy fill; but pass, and stay not 

here thy gait. 5 15 

Make war breed peace; make peace stint war. . . 5': 5 




















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 95 


Cor. 

I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst 

for revenge. 1 :i 

He pays himself with being proud. 1 :i 

With every minute you do change a mind. 1 :i 

Were I anything but what I am, I could wish me 

only he. 1 :i 

Disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon. 1 :i 
You would be another Penelope; yet all the yarn 
she spun, in Ulysses’ absence, did but fill Ithaca 

full of moths. 1:3 

All the contagion of the south light on you. 1:4 

You souls of geese, that bear the shapes of men! 1:4 
Bring me word thither how the world goes, 
that to the pace of it I may spur on my jour¬ 
ney. 1 :io 

One that converses more with the buttock of the 

night, than with the forehead of the morning. 2:1 
You are well understood to be a perfecter giber 
for the table, than a necessary bencher in the 

Capitol. 2:1 

Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. 2:1 

It gives me an estate of seven years’ health. 2:1 

Ears and eyes for the time, but hearts for the 

event. 2:1 

Rewards his deeds with doing them. 2 :2 

It is a part that I shall blush in acting. 2 :2 

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude 
to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the 

multitude. 2:3 

You speak o’ the people, as if you were a god to 
punish, not 

















96 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


A man of their infirmity. 3 :I 

As patient as the midnight sleep. 3 :I 

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 

Or Jove for his power to thunder. 3 :I 

Mildly be it, then; mildly. 3 :2 

Thy tears are salter than a younger man’s. 4:1 

I would the gods had nothing else to do, 

But to confirm my curses. 4 :2 

A goodly house; the feast smells well; but I 

Appear not like a guest. 4 : 5 

Though thy tackle’s torn, thou show’st a noble 

vessel. 4 : 5 

Let me have war, say 1. 4 : 5 

Like a thing made by some other deity than na¬ 
ture, 

That shapes men better. 4-6 

The gods be good to us !. 4 ; 6 

Your soldiers use him as the grace ’fore meat. . . 4:7 

Pride, which out of daily fortune ever taints the 

happy man. 4 : 7 

You are smelt above the moon. 5 :I 

He was not taken well; he had not dined. 5 :i 

Has he dined? I would not speak with him till 

after dinner. 5 :2 

Let it be virtuous to be obstinate. 5 : 3 

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part. 5 : 3 

Behold, the heavens do ope, the gods look down, 

And this unnatural scene they laugh at. 5 : 3 

He wants nothing of a god but eternity, and a 

heaven to throne in. 5 : 4 

A man by his own alms empoisoned, and with his 

charity slain. 5:5 

Thou hast done a deed whereat valor will weep. 5 :5 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 


97 


As proper men as ever trod upon neat’s leather. 
These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s 
wing, 

Will make him fly an ordinary pitch. 

Beware the ides of march! . 

Let the gods so speed me, as I love 

The name of honor more than I fear death. 

Well, honor is the subject of my story. 

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed ? . ... 
A lean and hungry look; He thinks too much. . . 

’Would he were fatter. 

It was Greek to me. 

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit. 

No, not an oath. . . . Swear priests, and cowards. 

A dish fit for the gods. 

That great vow which did incorporate and make 
us one. 

Dwell I but in the suburbs of your good pleasure? 
I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand 

Any exploit worthy the name of honor. 

I will strive with things impossible. 

I never stood on ceremonies. 

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; 

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of 

princes. 

Shall Caesar send a lie?. 

My heart laments that virtue cannot live 

Out of the teeth of emulation. 

The ides of March are come. 

If I could pray to move, prayers would move me. 
Et tu, Brutef . 


J.C. 

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98 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

How many ages hence, shall this our lofty scene 
be acted over, 

Instates unborn, and accents yet unknown. . . 3 :I 

Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so 

apt to die. 3 :I 

Though last, not least in love. 3 :I 

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. 3:1 

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome 

more. 3 12 

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. 3:2 

So are they all, all honorable men. 3:2 

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 3:2 

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men. 3 :2 
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. . . 3:2 

This was the most unkindest cut of all. 3:2 

O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! . . . . 3 :2 

I am no orator, as Brutus is. 3 :2 

Mischief, thou art afoot. 3 :2 

Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. 

That’s as much as to say, they are fools that 

marry. 3 : 3 

Tear him for his bad verses. 3 '.3 

The ides of March remember!. 4 : 3 

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than 

such a Roman. 4:3 

Fret till your proud heart break. 4:3 

O, insupportable and touching loss! . 4:3 

With meditating that she must die once, 

I have the patience to endure it now. 4:3 

Thou shalt see me at Philippi. '4:3 

Blow, wind; swell, billow; and swim, bark! 

The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. ... 5:1 




















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 99 

O that a man might know the end of this day’s 

business, ere it come. 5 ;I 

My heart doth joy, that yet, in all my life, 

I found no man, but he was true to me. 5 15 

This was the noblest Roman of them all. 5 15 

Nature might stand up, and say to all the world, 

This was a man! . 5 


A.&C. 

In nature’s infinite book of secrecy, a little I can 

read.. 1:2 

More beloving, than beloved. 1 \2 

Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death, 

I hear him as he flattered. 1:2 

Why should I think you can be mine, and true, . . . 

Who have been false to Fulvia ?. 1:3 

Upon your sword sit laurelled victory! 

And smooth success be strewed before your feet. 1 13 
He, which is, was wished until he were; 

And the ebbed man, . . . comes deared,. by 

being lacked. 1:4 

What’s amiss, may -it be gently heard. 2:2 

You shall have time to wrangle in, when you have 

nothing else to do. 2:2 

’Tis a studied, not a present thought. 2 .2 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her in¬ 
finity variety. 2 :2 

Music, moody food, of us that trade in love. . . 2:5 

I do not like hut yet; ... fie upon hut yet ; 

But yet is as a jailer to bring forth some mon¬ 
strous malefactor. 215 
















100 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Pity me,—but do not speak to me. 2: 5 

I will praise any man that will praise me. 2 

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be 
seen to move in it, are the holes where eyes 

should be. 2 : 7 

I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes. .. 2 : 7 

This thou shouldst have done, and not have spoke 

on’t. 2: 7 

’Tis not my profit that does lead mine honor; 

mine honor it. 2: 7 

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. 3 

Which had superfluous kings for messengers. . . 3 :I ° 

To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear; 

And, in that mood, the dove will peck the 

estridge. 3 :I1 

I am alone the villain of the earth. 4 : ^ 

You have shown all Hectors. 4 ’-8 

Fortune and Antony part here. 4 :I ° 

The long day’s task is done, and we must sleep. 4:12 

I am conqueror of myself. 4:12 

No more, but e’en a woman; and commanded 

By such poor passion as the maid that milks. . . 4:13 

Then is it sin, to rush into the secret house of 
death, 

Ere death dare come to us. 4 :I 3 

It is tidings to wash the eyes of kings. 5 :I 

The business of this man looks out of him; .... 5:1 

The bright day is done, and we are for the dark. 5 :2 
I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to 

baser life. 5 :2 

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch; 

Which hurts, and is desired. 5 :2 


















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS ioi 

Cym. 

I do not think so fair an outward, and such stuff 
within, 

Endows a man but he. i : i 

There cannot be a pinch in death more sharp than 

this is. j ;2 

He is a man, worth any woman. 1:2 

Like the tyrannous breathing of the north. 1:4 

He hath a kind of honor sets him off, 

More than a mortal seeming. 1 :y 

The crickets sing, and men’s o’erlabored, sense 

Repairs itself by rest. 2 :2 

O sleep, thou ape of death! . 2:2 

Swift, swift, you dragons of the night!. 2:2 

Hark! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings. .. 2 13 

’Tis gold which buys admittance; oft it doth. . . 2:3 

Fools are not mad folks. 2 13 

Winds of all the corners kissed your sails. 2 : 4 . 

When we shall hear the rain and wind beat dark 
December, how. . . . Shall we discourse the. 

freezing hours away? . 3:3 

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so 
divine, 

That cravens my weak hand. 3 :4 

By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not, an earthly par¬ 
agon ! . 3 ; 6 

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!.3 :6 

The night to the owl, and morn to the lark, less 

welcome. 3:6 

Experience, O, thou disprov’st report! . 4:2 

Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains, 

for he had none. 4:2 

The herbs, that have on them cold dew o’ the 
night, 



















102 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Are strewings fit’st for graves. 4 :2 

To write, and read, be henceforth treacherous! . . 4 :2 

If I do lie, and do no harm by it, though the gods 
hear, 

I hope they’ll pardon it. 4 :2 

Said a century of prayers. 4 :2 

Wherein I am false, I am honest; not true, to be 

true. 4 : 3 

To be still hot summer’s tanlings, and 

The shrinking slaves of winter. 4:4 

To darkness fleet, souls that fly backward. 5 : 3 

Is’t enough, I am sorry? So children temporal 
fathers do appease; 

Gods are more full of mercy. 5 : 4 

Who is’t can read a woman?.. 5 : 5 

If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me 

To death with mortal joy. 5 : 5 


T.A. 

Defend the justice of my cause with arms. 1 :i 

Sleep in peace, slain in your country’s wars! . .. . 1:2 

Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh, . . . 

That so the shadows be not unappeased. 1:2 

Here are no storms, no noise, but silence and 

eternal sleep. 1:2 

Safe out of fortune’s shot; . . . 

Advanced above pale envy’s threatening reach. 2:1 

When the golden sun salutes the morn. 2:1 

Foul-spoken coward! that thunder’st with thy 

tongue. 2:1 

The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull. 2:1 
The hunt is up, the morn is bright and gray, 


















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 103 

The fields are fragrant, and the woods are 

S re en. 2 :2 

The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, 

And make a checkered shadow on the ground. 213 

They died in honor’s lofty bed. 3:1 

I have read that Hecuba of Troy ran mad through 

sorrow. ^ :I 

O, why should nature build so foul a den, 

Unless the gods delight in tragedies! . 4:1 

O Heavens, can you hear a good man groan, 

And not relent, or not compassion him?. 4:1 

Thou wilt not trust the air with secrets. 4:2 

And sith there is no justice in earth nor hell, 

We will solicit heaven, and move the gods. .. 4:3 

There’s not a god left unsolicited. 4:3 

If one good deed in all my life I did, 

I do repent it from my very soul. 5 13 


Per. 

See where she comes, apparelled like the spring. 1 :i 
How dare the plants look up to heaven, from 
whence, 

They have their nourishment ?. 1:2 

Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 

Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up 

the little ones. 2:1 

He asks of you, that never used to beg. 2:1 

What I have been, I have forgot to know; 

But what I am, want teaches me to think on. 2:1 
O you gods! why do you make us love your 
goodly gifts, 

And snatch them straight away? ... .. 3:1 















104 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


The gods are quick of ear. 4:1 

Thou art, like the harpy, which to betray, doth, 
with thine angel’s face, seize with thine eagle’s 

talons.». 4 : 4 

Thou seem’st a palace for the crowned truth to 

dwell in. 5:1 

Patience,—smiling extremity out of act. 5:1 

This is the rarest dream that e’er dull sleep 

Did mock sad fools withal. 5:1 

The gods can have no mortal officer 

More like a god than you. 5 :3 


K.L. 

Is not this your son, my lord?. 1 :i 

I shall study deserving. 1 :i 

We, unburthened, crawl toward death. 1 :i 

A love that makes breath poor, and speech un¬ 
able. 1 :i 

Nothing can come of nothing. 1 :i 

So young, and so untender. 1 :i 

He’ll shape his own course in a country new. 1:1 

Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our 

oath. 1 :i 

I want that glib and oily art, to speak and pur¬ 
pose not. 1 :i 

Better thou hadst not been born, 

Than not to have pleased me better. 1 :i 

Thou art most rich, being poor; 

Most choice, forsaken; and most beloved, de¬ 
spised. 1 ;i 

Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend !. 1 -4 

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 105 

To have a thankless child! . 1:4 

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven! . . 115 

I told him, the revenging gods 

’Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.. . 2:1 

Infirmity doth still neglect all office. 214 

Struck me with her tongue, most serpent-like. .. 2 14 

. O, Heavens, if you do love old men, ... if your¬ 
selves are old ! . 2:4 

Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! 3 :2 

Rumble thy bellyful! Spit fire! spout rain! . . 3 .2 

The wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of 

the dark. 3:2 

More sinned against than sinning. 3:2 

O, that way madness lies. 3:4 

Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, 

bare, forked animal as thou art. 3:4 

Poor Tom’s a-cold. 3:4 

Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word 
was still— 

Fie, foh, and fum,—I smell the blood of a Brit¬ 
ish man. ,.yc.. .. 3:4 

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. 3 7 
World, world, O world! But that thy strange 
mutations make us hate thee, Life would not 

yield to age. 4:1 

O the difference of man, and man !. 4:2 

This shows you are above, you justicers. 

That these our nether crimes so speedly can 

venge! . 4:2 

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. 4:4 

Is wretchedness deprived that benefit, 

To end itself by death?. 4:6 

I’ll bear affliction till it do cry out itself, 
















io6 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Enough, enough, and die . 4 ; 6 

Ay, every inch a king. 4 : ^ 

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to 

sweeten my imagination. 4 : ^ 

We came crying hither, Thou know’st the first 

time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry. 4:6 
When we are born, we cry, that we are come 

To this great stage of fools. 4:6 

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was 

valiant. 5:1 

My state stands on me to defend, not to debate. 5:1 
Upon such sacrifices, the gods themselves throw 

incense. 5 :3 

If it be a man’s work, I will do it. 5 :3 

False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father. . . 5 13 

The wheel has come full circle. 5 :3 

O, our lives’ sweetness! That we the pain of 
death would hourly die, Rather than die at 

once! . 5 : 3 

It is a chance that does redeem all sorrows. 5 13 

Her voice iwas ever soft, 

Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. 5 :3 
Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him, 

That would upon the rack of this tough world 

Stretch him out longer. 5 13 

He but usurped his life. 5 13 


R.&J. 

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, 

Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! . . 1 :i 

Well-apparelled April on the heel of limping win¬ 
ter treads. 1:2 
















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 107 

God rest all Christian souls! . 1:3 

We’ll have no Cupid hood-winked with a scarf. 1 -.4 
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, 

Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like 

thorn. j 

I’ll be a candle-holder, and look on. 1:4 

He, that hath the steerage of my course, direct 

m y sail! . x - 4 

You and I are past our dancing days. 115 

You kiss by the book. .. 1:3 

My only love, sprung from my only hate. 115 

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon! 2:2 

How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night 

Like softest music to attending ears! . 2:2 

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, 
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of 

light. 2:3 

These fashion-mongers, . . . who stand so much 
on the new form, that they cannot sit at ease 

on the old bench. 2:4 

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk. 2:4 

Love’s heralds should be thoughts, 

Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s 

beams. 2:3 

’Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church 

door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. 3:1 

Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! . 3:1 

Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards 

Phoebus’ mansion. 3 :2 

Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all 

in black! . 3:2 

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! .... 3 :2 

Thou art wedded to calamity.—. 3:3 

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108 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 

Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy! . 3:3 

Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what’s 

your will? . 3 : 3 

Thy tears are womanish. 3 .3 

It was the nightingale, and not the lark, . . . 

Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. .. 3 :5 

Night’s cancjles are burnt out, and jocund day 

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. 3 :5 

O fortune, fortune ! all men call thee fickle. 3 :5 

One . . . hath sorted out a sudden day of joy. . . 3 15 

When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew. 3 :5 

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds. 3 :5 

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, 

That sees into the bottom of my grief ?. 3:5 

If all else fail, myself have power to die. 3:5 

My leisure serves me. 4:1 

I do spy a kind of hope. 4:1 

My dismal scene I needs must act alone. 4:3 

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. 4:5 

The Heavens do lower upon you, for some ill. .. 4:5 

My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne. 5:1 

Her immortal part with angels lives. 5:1 

O pardon me for bringing these ill news. 5:1 

A beggarly account of empty boxes. 5:1 

My poverty, but not my will, consents,— 

I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. 5:1 

There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, . . . 

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst 

not sell. 5:1 

One writ with me is sour misfortune’s book! .. 5 13 

A greater power than we can contradict hath 
thwarted our intents. 5 :3 





















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 109 

What fear is this, which startles in our ears? .. 5:3 

The sun for sorrow will not show his head. 5 :3 


Ham. 

It harrows me with fear and wonder. 1 :i 

In the gross and scope of mine opinion, 

This bodes some strange eruption to our state. 1 :i 
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 

Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastern hill... 1 :i 

A little more than kin, and less than kind. 1:2 

This must be so.. 1:2 

This . . . sits smiling to my heart. 1:2 

O, that the Everlasting had not fixed 

His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!. 1:2 

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 

Seem to me all the uses of this world!. 1:2 

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats. 1:2 

I shall not look upon his like again. 1:2 

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 1:2 

Would the night were come! Till then sit still, 

my soul. 1:2 

I would not have you so slander any moment’s 

leisure. 1.3 

It is a nipping and an eager air. 1:4 

A custom more honored in the breach, than in the 

observance. 114 

Angels and ministers of grace, defend us !. 114 

Revisit’st thus the glimpses of the moon. 114 

And, for my soul, what can it do to that, 

Being a thing immortal as itself ?. 1:4 

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 1 14 

I could a tale unfold,. 1:5 





















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SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


O, my prophetic soul! my uncle !. 1:5 

The glowworm shows the matin to be near, 

And ’gins to pale his ineffectual fire. 1:5 

For my own poor part, look you, I will go pray. 1 :5 

It is an honest ghost. 1 .’5 

There are more things in heaven and earth, • 
Horatio, 

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 1:5 

The time is out of joint. 1:5 

’Tis true, ’tis pity; and pity ’tis, ’tis true. 2:2 

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun 
doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never 

doubt I love. 2:2 

What do you read, my lord ? 

Words, words, words. 2:2 

Though this be madness, yet there’s method in it. 2:2 
The world is grown honest. . . Then is dooms¬ 
day near. 2 :2 

A dream itself is but a shadow. 2:2 

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in 
reason! in action, how like an angel! in appre¬ 
hension, how like a god!. 2:2 

Man delights not me,—no, nor woman neither. . . 2:2 

One fair daughter, and no more, 

The which he loved passing well. 2:2 

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba ?. 2:2 

’Tis too much proved,—that with devotion’s 
visage, 

And pious action, we do sugar o’er the devil 

himself. 3:1 

To be, or not to be, that is the question. 3:1 

To take arms against a sea of troubles—. 3:1 

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. 3:1 


















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS in 

The dread of something after death... 3:1 

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn 

No traveller returns. 3:1 

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. .. 3:1 

I am myself indifferent honest. 3:1 

The glass of fashion and the mould of form. 3:1 

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh. 3:1 
O, woe is me! 

To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! 3:1 

To split the ears of the groundlings. 3:2 

The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the 
first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as ’twere, 

the mirror up to nature. 3:2 

I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had 
made men, and not made them well, they imi¬ 
tated humanity so abominably.,. 3 .2 

Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, 

And I will wear him in my heart’s core,. 3 :2 

For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot. 3 :2 

None wed the second, but who killed the first. . . 3:2 

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 3 .2 

O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! 3 :2 

’Tis as easy as lying. 3:2 

’Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on 
than a pipe? . . . Though you can fret me, 

you cannot play upon me. 3:2 

O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more 

engaged! . 3 ^3 

That roars so loud, and thunders in the index. . . 3 ‘.4 

O shame! where is thy blush ?. 3 '.4 

A king of shreds and patches!. 3 :4 

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 3 14 

I must be cruel, only to be kind. 3:4 



















II2 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


As level as the cannon to his blank. 4:1 

How should I your true love know, From another 
one? 

By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal 

shoon. 4:5 

God be at your table. 4:5 

Good morrow, ’tis St. Valentine’s day, All in the 
morning betime, 

And I a maid at your window, To be your 

Valentine. 4:5 

There’s a rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray 

• you, love, remember. 4:5 

There is pansies, that’s for thoughts. 4:5 

There’s rue for you; . . . you may wear your rue 

with a difference. 4:5 

A very riband in the cap of youth. 4 :y 

Are you like the painting of a sorrow?. 4:7 

Knocked about the mazzard. 5:1 

To what base uses we may return, Horatio! . .. . 5:1 

They did make love to this employment. 5 .2 

The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. 5:2 

As the woodcock to mine own springe. 5 :2 

Absent thee from felicity awhile, ... to tell my 

story. 5 :2 

The rest is silence. 5 ,2 


Oth. 

A fellow almost damned in a fair wife. 1 :i 

Wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck 

at. 1 :i 

Thou art a villain. 

You are—a senator. 1 :i 

Who would be a father?. 1 :i 























FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 113 

I lack iniquity sometimes, to do me service. 1:2 

My parts, my title, and my perfect soul. 1:2 

Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors! . .. . 113 

The very head and front of my offending. 113 

In faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing strange; 

’Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful. 1:3 

This only is the witchcraft I have used. 1.3 

Slubber the gloss of your new fortunes. 113 

The affair cries—haste, and speed must answer it. 113 

She has deceived her father, and may thee. 113 

’Tis in ourselves, that we are thus, or thus. 113 

Drown thyself ! Drown cats, and blind puppies ! 113 

Put money in thy purse. 113 

There are many events in the womb of time, which 

will be delivered. 1:3 

I am nothing, if not critical. 2:1 

Most lame and impotent conclusion! . 2:1 

It had been better you had not kissed your three 

fingers so oft. 2:1 

I dote in mine own comforts. 2:1 

Let’s teach ourselves that honorable stop, 

Not to outsport discretion. 2 13 

I’ll do’t, but it dislikes me. 213 

My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream. 2:3 

A soldier fit to stand by Caesar. 2:3 

I’ll knock you o’er the mazzard. 213 

As if some planet had unwitted men. 2 13 

What’s the matter, that you unlace your reputation 

thus ?. 213 

I have lost my reputation—the immortal part of 

myself. 2 13 

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no 

name to be known by, let us call thee— devil! 2 13 
























SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


114 

O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, 

to steal away their brains. 2: 3 

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the in¬ 
gredient is a devil. 2: 3 

Come, come, good wine is a familiar good crea¬ 
ture, if it be well used. 2 : 3 

Out of her own goodness make the net that shall 

enmesh them all. 2 *3 

O, thereby hangs a tail. 3 :I 

It is my nature’s plague to spy into abuses. 3 : 3 

Who steals my purse, steals trash; . . . 

But he that filches from me my good name, 

Robs me of that which not enriches him, 

And leaves me poor indeed. 3 : 3 

Not to leave undone, but keep unknown. 3 13 

Whistle her off, and let her down the wind. 3 : 3 

’Tis destiny unshunable, like death. 3 : 3 

Jealousy—the green-eyed monster, which doth 
make 

The meat it feeds on. 3:3 

Not poppy, nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy 
syrups of the world, 

Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
which 

Thou owd’st yesterday . 3 :3 

Othello’s occupation’s gone. 3 :3 

On horror’s head horrors accumulate. 3:3 

Take note, take note, O world, 

To be direct and honest, is not safe. 3 13 

’Twas that hand that gave away my heart. 3 :4 

Work on, my medicine, work. 4:1 

My heart is turned to stone, I strike it, and it 
hurts my hand. 4:1 




















FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 115 

Yet the pity of it, Iago, O Iago, the pity of it, 

Iago! . 4:1 

The office opposite saint Peter, and keep the gate 

of hell. 4:2 

Put in every honest hand a whip, 

To lash the rascal naked through the world. . . 4:2 

He hath a daily beauty in his life, that makes me 

ugly. 5 :I 

This is the night, that either makes me, or for¬ 
does me quite. 5:1 

So sweet was ne’er so fatal. 5 :2 

Why I should fear, I know not, 

Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel 

I fear. 5 :2 

Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge 

Had stomach for them all. 5:2 

Curse his better angel from his side. 5 .2 

Are there no stones in heaven, but what serve for 

the thunder ? . 5:2 

So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true. 5:2 

Nought did I in hate, but all in honor. 5 .2 

Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. 5 :2 

One that loved not wisely, but too well. 5 .2 

More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea! .... 5:2 




















EPITHETS, EXPLETIVES, AND 
CATCH PHRASES 


PART III. 








Part III 


EPITHETS, EXPLETIVES, AND CATCH 
PHRASES 

Tent . 

Play the men. i: i 

Bountiful fortune, now my dear lady. 1:2 

Suffer a sea-change. 1:2 

Widow Dido! Widower iEneas! . 2:1 

Open-eyed conspiracy! . 2:1 

Swim like a duck. 2:2 

Moon-calf ! . 3:2 

Be a boy right out. 4:1 

Naiads, of the wandering brooks. 4:1 

That’s my dainty Ariel!. 5:1 


T.G.V. 

An earthly paragon! . 2:4 

Black as ink. 3:1 

She makes no doubt. 5 :2 


M.W.W. 

Mars of Malcontents! . 1:3 

What the dickens! . 3:2 

Lisping hawthorn buds. 3 ;3 

Happy man be his dole! . . *. 3 :4 


119 





















120 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Tw.N . 

The nonpareil of beauty. 1:5 

A horse of that color. 213 

As hungry as the sea!. 2:4 

For the love of mockery!. 2:5 

Then westward-hoe! . 3:1 

Very midsummer madness. 3 -.4 

Marble-breasted tyrant. 5:1 

The very devil incardinate. 5:1 

My maiden weeds. 5:1 


MM. 

The demi-god Authority—. 1:3 

For the benefit of silence!. 5:1 


M. Ado 

A very valiant trencher-man.. . in 

My dear lady Disdain! .. . 1 :i 

Benedick, the married man!. 1 :i 

A very forward March chick! . 1:3 

Civil as an orange. 2:1 

Eat your word. 4:1 

His May of youth. 5 :I 


M.N.D. 

A monstrous little voice! . 1:2 

Merry wanderer of the night. 2:1 


























EPITHETS I2J 

A peck of provender. 4:1 

I see a voice. 5:1 

Cut thread and thrum. 5:1 


L.L.L. 

My tender juvenal! . 1:2 

My tough senior! . 1:2 

Fast and loose. 1:2 

Adieu, valor! rust, rapier! be still drum!. 1:2 

Devise, wit! write, pen!.. 1:2 

Lord of folded arms— . 3:1 

Four woodcocks in a dish. 4 : 3 

The true Promethean fire. 4 : 3 

’Ware pencils !. 5 :2 

I make no doubt. 5 :2 

Trencher-knight. 5 :2 


M. V. 

Green-eyed jealousy.. 3 :2 

Good joy, good joy, my lord. 3:2 

Most rightful judge! . 4 :I 

O wise and upright judge! . 4 :I 

Most learned judge! . 4 :I 

A Daniel come to judgment!... 4 ' l 


A. Y.L.I. 

Thrice-crowned queen of night! . 3 :2 

O knowledge ill-inhabited! . 3 : 3 

Od’s my little life!. 3 : 5 




























122 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Forever and a day. 4 :I 

A most vile Mar-text. 5 :I 

Retort courteous—Quip modest—Reply churlish 
—Reproof valiant—Countercheck quarrelsome 
—The Lie with circumstance—The Lie direct. 5 '.4 


A. W. E. W. 

Bright particular star. 1 :i 

Poor but honest. 1:3 

O, for' the love of laughter!. 3 :6 

He’s a cat to me. 4:3 

Out-villained villany. 4:3 


W. 7 . 

Queen of curds and cream. 4:3 

Soft as dove’s down. 4:3 

As white as the fanned snow. 4:3 


C. E. 

The always wind-obeying deep. 1:1 


Mac. 

The primrose way. 2 13 

Thriftless ambition ! . 2 ’.4 

Out, damned spot!..... 5:1 

The sear, the yellow leaf.. 5 13 

Pull’t off, I say. 5 :3 

Out, out, brief candle. 5 :5 























EPITHETS 


125 


K. J. 

Borrowed majesty!. 1 :i 

Bell, book, and candle. 3 :3 

Womanish tears. 4:1 

Shears of destiny. 4:2 

The better foot before. 4:2 

To be a widow-maker. 5 .2 


K. R. II. 

Wrath-kindled gentlemen!. 1 :i 

Rain hot vengeance. 1:2 

Grace me no grace. 2 13 

Distaff-women. 3:2 

Maid-pale peace! . 3:3 


iK. H. IV. 

Night-tripping fairy.... 1 :i 

That wandering knight so fair! . 1:2 

Diana’s foresters. 1:2 

Old father antic, the law... 1:2 

Beware instinct! . 2:4 

Fat as butter.. 2:4 

Ill-weaved ambition. 5 :4 


2K. H. IV .. 

A rascally yea-forsooth knave! . 1:2 

The hatch and brood of time.. . 3:1 

Let time shape... 3 :2 



























124 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


By cock and pye, sir. 5:1 


1 K. H. VI. 

The planets of mishap. 1 :i 

Quillets of the law. 2 .4 


2K. H. VI. 

Rules the roast, . 1 :i 

The mournful crocodile—. 3:1 

A timely-parted ghost. 3 :2 

Lean-faced Envy— . 3 :2 


3K. H. VI. 

Good Gloster, and good devil!. 5 :6 


K. R. III. 

Night-walking heralds—. 1 :i 

Poor painted queen!. ! 

A reeling world, indeed! . . 3:2 

Tongue-tied ambition—. 3 ; y 

Coward conscience! . 5 .3 


K. H. VIII. 

Sit state statues only! . x ;2 

Bullen! No, we’ll no Bullens!. 3:2 

A spleeny Lutheran! . y 2 
























EPITHETS 


125 


T.&C. 

Tamer than sleep, 

Fonder than ignorance... 1:1 

Valiant as the lion, 

Churlish as the bear, 

Slow as the elephant. 1:2 

A merry Greek, indeed!. 1:2 

Bold as an oracle ! . .. .. 1 : 3 

That god in office. 1 : 3 

Mars his idiot! .. 2:1 

Short-armed ignorance—. 2 : 3 

As true as steel, 

As plantage to the moon.. 3 :2 

As true as Troilus. 3 :2 

As false as Cressid. 3 :2 

Words, words, mere words. 5 : 3 


T. of A. 

Mouth-friends!— Parasites! 

Affable wolves, meek bears! 

Trencher-friends! 

Cap and knee slaves .. 3 *-6 

Thou cold sciatca—. 4' 1 

All-shunned poverty. 4 - 2 


Cor. 

Itch of opinion... 

Bemock the modest moon. 1:1 

Odds beyond arithmetic!. 3 • 1 

Under the canopy. 4-5 






















126 SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


/. C. 

Chew upon this. i * 2 

A hot friend cooling. 4- 2 

An itching palm. 4 : 3 

Aweary of the world.. 4 : 3 


A.&C. 

My salad days— .,. 1:5 

I am onion-eyed ! . 4:2 

He was as rattling thunder!. 5 :2 

I am marble-constant! . 5 .2 


Cym. 

Boldness be my friend! 

Arm me, Audacity! .. . 1:7 

Spare your arithmetic. 2:4 

Hail, thou fair heaven! . 3 13 

Poor shadows of Elysium ! . 5 14 


T. A. 

Fame’s eternal date... 1:2 


Per. 

iEsculapius guide us! . 3:2 

Modest as justice! . 5:1 

The music of the spheres. 5:1 

Dian, Goddess Argentine! . 5:2 
























EPITHETS 


127 


K.L. 

You base foot-ball player!. 114 

Ear-kissing arguments! . 2:1 

The revenging gods, . 2:1 

Threading dark-eyed night. 2:1 

Too old to learn. 2:2 

Take physic, pomp! . 3:4 

A most toad-spotted traitor! . 5:3 


R.&J. 

The all-seeing sun. 1:2 

Prince of cats ! . 2 :4 

The wild-goose chase. 2 ‘.4 

Hang up philosophy !. 3 : 3 

How now, chop-logic!. 3:5 

Ham. 

Hyperion to a satyr! . 1:2 

Like Niobe, all tears... 1:2 

The primrose path of daliance. 1: 3 

Springs to catch woodcocks! . 1 : 3 

To the manner born. 1 -4 

Moult no feather...... 2 :2 

The paragon of animals! .. 2:2 

’Twas caviare to the general. 2 :2 

The play’s the thing— . 2:2 

The law’s delay, 

The insolence of office, . 3 :I 

The observed of all observers! . 3 :I 



























128 


SHAKESPEAREAN ORACLES 


Out-herods Herod! . 3 :2 

It smells to Heaven. 3:3 

The primal, eldest curse. 3 :3 

Hoist with his own petar!. 3 14 

Sweets to the sweet!. 5:1 

Quick and dead. 5:1 

Oth. 

Blessed fig’s end! :. 2:1 

Blessed pudding! . 2:1 

Perdition catch my soul! . 3 :3 

Chaos is come again.,. 3:3 

A foregone conclusion. 3 13 

O, blood, Iago, blood! . 3:3 

False as hell!. 4:2 

False as water . 5 :2 

Rash as fire!. 5 :2 

As ignorant as dirt!.. 5 .2 


















INDEX 


Abides 34 

Absence 73 

Abusing 67 

Abysm 65 

Accident 70 

Achieve 51 

Achilles 93 

A-cold 105 

Actor 96 

Actors 71 

Adder 46, 87 

Advantage 33, 35, 36 

Adversaries 76 

Adversities 88 

Adversity 24, 67, 86 

Advertised 88 

JEsculapius 126 

Affliction 22, 105 

Age 83, 84, 91, 99 

Air 65, 66, 100, 106, 108, 

Ajax 54 

Alacrity 68 

Allegiance 48 

Alms 93, 96 

Am 60, 68, 95, 103 

Amazedly 71 

Ambition 46, 65, 75, 91, 98, 
123, 124 
Amiss 22, 99 
„ Amity 42 
Ancestors 67 
Angels 80, 92, 108, 109 
Anger 48, 54, 90 
Anguish 115 
Antony 100 


Apollo 71, 77 
Appetite 18 
Applaud 80 
Apples 26 
April 25, 92, 106 
Arabia 80 
Arden 74 
Are 68 
Ariel 119 

Arithmetic 125, 126 
Arms no, 121 
Art 29, 104 
Ass 53, 59, 71 
Assume 58 
Assurance 79 
Athens 71 
Attempt 29, 56 
Attorney, 87 
Attorneyed 70 
109 Audacity 126 

Authority 19, 28, 69, 
Aweary 126 
Axe 59 

Babbled 85 
Bachelor 70, 98 
122, Bad 38, 61 
Ballads 77 
Banishment 82 
Banners 80 
Barefoot 76 
Bargain 73 
Bark 92, 98 
Basilisk 76 
Be 57, 109 


130 


INDEX 


Bear 43, 125 
Beast 59 

Beauty 24, 88, 115 
Beautiful 36 
Bee 34 
Beg 103 
Beggar 81, 83 
Beggarly 108 
Beggars 38, 43, 56, 97 
Beggary 37, 47, 81 
Bell 75, 123 
Bells in' 

Beloving 99 
Bemock 125 , 

Benedick 120 

Berries 65 

Bird 85, 88 

Birnam 80 

Blackberries 83 

Blame 91 

Blasts 39 

Blessed 49, 128 

Blessing 26, 89 

Blood 29, 31, 44, 69, 128 

Blush hi 

Boar 40 

Boat 113 

Bodes 109 

Body 73 

Bombast 83 

Bond 74 

Book 72, 84, 99, 107 
Boots 38, 66 
Born 71, 94, 104 
Bosom 85, 108 
Bounty 44, 69 
Bow 53 
Boy 72, 119 
Boys 27, 34, 50, 91 
Breach 85 
Brevity 57 
Briars 24 
Britain 49 
Brother 78 


Brute 97 
Brutus 46, 97 
Bullen 124 
Burr 20 
Burrs 42 

Business 48, 93, 100 
Butter 123 
Butterfly 42, 46 
But yet 99 
Buy 73 

Cabined 79 

Ccesar 46, 48, 59, 97, 113 
Cake 26, 41 
Calamity 40, 107 
Calumny 58 
Came 72, 75, 85 
Cancel 46 
Candle 24, 88, 122 
Candle-holder 107 
Candles 74 
Cannon 112 
Canopy 125 
Cap 57, 100, 125 
Captain 19, 48 
Care 16, 18, 21, 36, 56 
Cat 33, 59, 122, 127 
Cause 22 
Caviare 127 
Celerity 48 
Ceremony 94, 97 
Chameleon 67, 88 
Chance 34, 45, 77, 106 
Chaos 128 
Charity 91 
Chase 127 
Chased 24 
Chastity 75 
Cheeks 80, 104 
Cheese 67 
Cherubims 74 
Chew 126 
Chop-logic 127 
Christians 73 


INDEX 


I 3 I 


Christmas 72 
Chronicle 66, 93 
Circe 78 
Citizens 74 
Civet 105 
Cloak 17 
Clouds 36, 39 
Cockle 22, 112 
Colts 31, 40 
Come 29 

Comfort 15, 82, 113 
Company 68, 86 
Comparisons 70 
Compassion 65 
Conception 92 
Conclusion 113, 128 
Confession 56 
Confusion 79 
Conqueror 82, 100 
Conscience 40, 85, 89, 91, 94, 
hi, 124 

Consideration 85 
Conspiracy 77, 119 
Constrained 80 
Contagion 95 

Content 40, 61, 77, 79, 88 

Converses 95 

Cook 57 

Cord 50 

Cork 75 

Corn 44 51 

Counsel 51, 56 

Counsellors 19 

Countenance 109 

Courage 30, 79 

Course 104, 107 

Courses 32 

Court 34 

Cow 20, 51 

Coward 35, 102 

Cowardice 21 

Cowards 46, 49, 50, 83 

Crimes 44, 105 

Crocodile 124 


Crown 28 
Cruel hi 
Cruelty 41 
Cucullus 18, 20 
Cup 114 

Cupid 21, 71, 72, 107 
Cure 23, 39 
Curs 37, 41 

Curse 92, 104,, 115, 128 
Curses 39, 89, 96 
Customs 36, 45, 5 C 109 

Daffodils 77 
Dagger 50, 79 
Damnation 78 
Dancing 107 
Danger 33, 75, 89 
Daphne 71 
Dare 79, 103 
Darkness 19 
Daughter no 

Day 27, 30, 41, 71, 78, 87, 93, 
100, 108 
Daylight 67, 70 
Dead 34, 50, 82 
Death 23, 32, 33, 34, 37, 44, 50, 
52 , 56, 57, 69, 82, 86, 100, 
108, 114 

Deceit 20, 37, 39, 52 
December 101 
Decreed 188 
Defeatures 78 
Defects 55 
Defend 106 
Delay 38, 40, 47, 127 
Delayed 50 
Delays 36 
Delights 56, no 
Denmark 109 
Depender 49 
Desert 57 
Deserve 32 
Deservings 84, 104 
Desire 29, 70, 74 


132 


INDEX 


Destiny 123 
Destruction 83, 86, 89 
Device 61, 68 

Devil 20, 23, 26, 28, 32, 35 , 58, 
61, 83, no, 120, 124 
Devils 22, 39, 60, 76 
Diana 123, 126 
Dickens 119 

Die 34 , 35 , 36, 45 , 56, 60, 65, 
98, 108 
Dies 16 
Difficulties 20 
Digestion 28, 79 
Dined 96 
Diomed 43 

Discretion 68, 85, 91, 113 

Discourse 50, 73, 85 

Disdain 120 

Disdains 95 

Disease 84 

Disgraces 75 

Dish 50, 97 

Dislikes 113 

Dispraise 43 

Distaff-women 123 

Divine 23 

Divinity 59 

Dog 23, 37, 44 5 i, 53 , 55 , 94 

Dole 27, 33, 119 

Done 30, 40, 78, 96, 100 

Doom 79 

Doomsday no 

Doubt no, 119, 121 

Doubts 32, 69 

Dough 27 

Dove 84, 86, 100, 122 

Dragon 53 

Dread m 

Dream 69, 104, no 

Dreams 66 

Drinks 20 

Drones 37 

Drown 66, 113 

Drunkard 22 


Duty 22 
Dwarf 42 
Dying 82 

Eagle 51 

Ear-kissing 127 

Early 68 

Eat 120 

Eaten 84 

Eclipses 53 

Elbow 21 

Elder 73 

Elements 100 

Elephant 92, 125 

Elm 77 

Else 55 

Elysium 126 

Employment 59, 112 

Empty 35 

Empty-hearted 53 

End 26, 33 , 34 , 43 , 46, 99 

Enemy 37, 74, 91, 114 

England 82, 86 

Enough 22, 43, 86, 102, 107 

Enskied 69 

Envy 41, 93, 102, 124 
Epitaph 94 
Equivocation 59, 80 
Eschewed 77 
Estate 95 
Everlasting 109 
Everything 32 
Evil 17, 28, 46 
Ewe 21 
Excuse 30 
Expectation 85, 93 
Expedition 76, 90 
Experience 16, 68, 101 
Extenuate 115 
Extremity 45, 77 
Eyes 21, 56, 65, 100 

Face 29, 69 
Faces 23, 91 


INDEX 


T 33 


Fairy 72, 123 
Faith 42, 46, 81 
Fall 98 
Falling 41 
Falls 50 

False 99, 106, 125 
Falsehood 30 
Fame 51, 72, 126 
Famine 86 
Farewell 83, 91 
Fashion 21, 72, in 
Fashioned 84 
Fast 24, 121 
Fate 17, 49, 61 
Fates 38 
Father 23, 113 
Fatter 97 
Faults 17, 49 
Fear 36, 52, 75, 109 
Fearing 82 
Fears 29 
Feast 28 
Feast-won 43 
Feather 76, 88, 94, 127 
February 71 
Felicity 112 
Fellow 73, 86, 89, 112 
Fernseed 83 
Ferryman 89 
Fever 79 
Fiddle-stick 83 
Fiend 54, 55, 69 
Fingers 41 

Fire 16, 27, 38, 43, 45, 55, 92, 
105, 128 
Firstlings 79 
Fish 21, 58, 103 
Flatter 89, 96 
Flattered 43, 58 
Flatteries 32 
Flattery, 35, 52, 53 
Flea 35 
Flower 29 
Fly 51 


Folly 23, 45 
Food 31, 60, 84 
Fool 18, 19, 24, 25, 35, 40, 53, 
68, 73, 90 
Foolery 45 
Foolish 60 

Fools 22, 49, 51, 53, 84, 101, 
106 

Foot 51, 68, 123 
Foot-ball 127 
Forever 122 
Forsaken 104 
Forsworn 72, 78 
Fortune 30, 34, 35, 50, 54, 70, 
73 , 74 , 81, 88, 93, 108, 119 
Fortunes 69 
Foster-nurse 105 
Foul 23, 78 
Fowl 28, 49 
Fox 26, 37, 38 
Frailty 57 
Fray 33 
Fret 98 

Friend 46, 58, 126 
Friends 44, 98 
Friendship 94 
Frost 91 
Fruit 24, 32, 61 
Furnace 40 
Fury 107 

Gall 19 
Geese 54, 95 
Gentleman 54, 70, 86, 89 
Get 32 

Ghost 106, no, 124 
Giant 19 
Giddy 27, 55, 71 
Gifts 52, 58, 67, 103 
Girdle 71 
Gives 43 
Glimpses 109 
Glory 86 
Gloss 113 


134 


INDEX 


God 23, 87, 96, 103, 125 
Godfather 22, 72 
Gods 44, 47, 48, 55 , 96, 97 , 102, 
127 

Gold 24, 36, 40, 81, 94, 101, 
104, 108 

Good 26, 35, 46, 92 
Good-Friday 30 
Good-morrow 40, 112 
Goodness 85, 114 
Good-night 79 
Goose 80 
Government 88 
Gnats 28, 38 
Grace 70, 96, 123 
Grandsires 41 
Grave 81 
Gravity 19, 83 
Greatness 18, 42, 48, 70 
Greek 97, 125 
Greyhound 76 

Grief 21, 30, 31, 32, 40, 56, 88, 
93 

Griefs 80, 51, 52, 77 
Groundlings in 
Guest 36, 96 
Guide 87 
Guiltiness 61, 115 

Habitation 34, 71 
Hand 37, 43, 66, 79 
Hang 76 

Hanged 15, 18, 43, 94 
Hanging 18, 24 
Happy 27, 57 
Hare 30 
Harness 80 
Harpy 104 
Harrows 109 
Haste 20, 57, 78, 113 
Hate 47, 91, 107 
Hated 47, 77 
Have 32 
Havoc 45, 98 


Hawk 57 
Hawthorn 71, 119 
Hazard 81, 84, 98 
Health 27 

Heart 23, 34, 37, 75, 86, 88, 95 , 
112, 114 
Heart-break 17 

Heaven 32, 68, 69, 82, 91, 126 

Heavens 38, 86, 97 

Heaviness 34 

Hector 93, 100 

Hecuba 103, no 

Hedge-sparrow 53 

Heir 30 

Hell 67, 83, 128 
Heralds 124 
Herbs 39, 101 
Hercules 71, 101 
Heretic 27 
Hills 40, 52 
Hire 45 
Hoist 128 
Holidays 33 

Honest 40, 70, 77, 94, 106, 114, 
122 

Honesty 25, 26, 41, 61 
Honor 40, 43, 45, 51, 62, 82, 
83, 85, 90, 91, 97, 100, 101, 
103, 115 

Honors 91 
Honorable 98 
Hony 17 
Hoods 41 

Hope 16, 20, 32, 40, 66, 79, 92 

Horrors 80, 114 

Horse 21, 39, 89, 90, 120 

Hours 55, 84, 90 

House 24, 43, 96 

Humor 68, 76 

Hunger 44, 95 

Hurt 33, 43, 49 

Husband 81 

Husbandry 79 

Hyperion 127 


INDEX 


135 


I 16, 79, hi 
Iago 115 
Ides 97, 98 
If 25 

Ignorance 37, 93, 125 
Ignorant 45, 128 
Ill 23, 29, 35, 49, 108 
Ill-will 35 

Impatience 31, 38, 77 

Inch 106 

Index hi 

Indies 67 

Indirections 57 

Infirmity 18, 105 

Ingratitude 69, 75, 95, 104 

Iniquity 113 

Ink 119 

Inn 83 

Innocence 27 
Innocents 48 
Instinct 33, 83, 123 
Invisible 67 
Invocate 89 
Is 19, 78 

Jack 89 
Jade 58 
Jealous 28, 61 

Jealousy 16, 58, 77, 114, 121 
Jest 19, 23, 77 , 84, 90 
Jesters 34, 55 
Job 17 

Journeyman in 
Jove 52, 56, 69 

Joy 20, 34, 76, 91, 99 , 102, 108, 
121 

Joys 50 

Judge 37, 91, 121 
Judgment 50, 121 
Jump 78 
Jupiter 95 
Just 41, 55 , 69, 89 
Justice 23, 25, 29, 41, 69, 84, 
102, 103, 126 


Juvenal 121 

Kin 109 

Kindness 76, 78 

King 58, 59, 67, 83, 100, hi 

Kissed 113 

Kitten 83 

Knave 36, 123 

Knavery 60 

Knight 123 

Knowledge 37, 70, 74, 121 

Labor 29, 32, 85, 92 
Lacked 45, 99 
Lag-end 84 
Lamb 38, 49 
Lament 16, 39 
Lamentation 25 
Lapwing 59 
Lark 24, 71, 85, 101 
Last 98 
Latin 72, 91 
Laugh 36, 61, 96 
Laughter 72, 122 
Law 19, 28, 30, 123 
Lawyers 87 
Lay on 81 
Leaf 122 
Learn 127 
Learning 76 
Leisure 70, 89, 108, 109 
Lenity 35, 38 
Liberty 69 
Lie 97, 102, 122 
Life 17, 20, 43, 47 , 59 , 69, 75 , 
80, 81, 87, 102 
Like 109 
Likelihoods 33 
Limed 39, 87, in 
Lion 25, 35, 38 
Lions 31 
Little 92 

Live 31, 39, 57, 60 
Loaf 51 


INDEX 


136 


Looker-on 70 
Loser 37, 51 
Loss 39, 98 

Love 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 32, 36, 
43, 48, 50, 56, 59, 60, 70, 72, 
92, 106, 107 
Lovers 74, 107 
Luck 17 
Lucky 27 
Lutheran 124 
Lying 84, 85, hi 

Mad 17, 54, 94, 104 
Madman 18 

Madness 58, 105, no, 120 

Magic 77 

Maid 65, 89 

Maiden 71, 120 

Majesty 123 

Malady 54 

Man 39, 41, 57, 72, 79, 99, 101, 

105, no, in 
Mankind 66 
Manna 74 
Manner 127 
Manners 41, 83 
Mar 54 

Marble-constant 126 
March 77, 97, 120 
Mark 55, 56 
Marriage 36, 38, 58 
Marriages 86 
Married 26, 57 
Mars 93, 119, 125 
Mar-text 122 
Masters 44, 46, 60 
Matin no 
Matter 69 
May 72, 84, 120 
Mazzard 112, 113 
Meat 17, 21, 25, 44, 97 
Medicine 71, 114 
Melancholy 26 
Memory 65, 79, 86 


Men is, 20, 44, 55, 70, 92, 96, 
97, 98 
Merciful 50 
Mercury 73, 81 
Mercy 19, 56, 66, 73, 75, 87, 93 
Merriest 35 
Merry 34, 76 
Messages 73 
Mildly 96 

Mind 36, 37, 66, 76, 93 
Minds 30, 38, 43, 46 
Minister 80 
Minute 56, 95 
Miracles 26, 35 
Mirror in 

Mirth 23, 26, 41, 70, 75, 78 

Mischance 57 

Mischances 17 

Mischief 60, 98 

Misery 15, 31 

Misfortune 108 

Mock 74, 93 

Mockery 120 

Modesty 66, 73, 75 

Mole 16 

Money 17, 21, 24, 113 
Moon 71, 107 
Moon-calf 119 
Moonlight 74 

Morn 90, 101, 102, 107, 109 
Mortal 66, no 
Mote 22 

Mother 51, 82, 86 
Mouse 72 
Mouth 74, 91 
Mouth-friends 125 
More 99 
Multitude 58 
Murder 58 
Muse 85 

Music 67, 74, 99, I2 6 
Myself 94 

Naiads 119 


INDEX 


137 


Nail 37 

Name 40, 56, 86, 114 
Nature 18, 23, 42, 45, 47, 54, 
99 , 103 

N ebudchadnezzar 76 
Necessities 54 
Negligence 91 
New-made 30 

News 47, 48, 81, 84, 88, 108 
Night 22, 29, 67, 87, 90, 93, 
101, 107, 109, 115, 121, 127 
Night-dogs 17 
Nightingale 71, 108 
Nightingales 69 
Niobe 127 
Noah 18 
Nobility 37, 60 
None 22 
Non pa riel 120 
North 65, 101 
Nose 66 
Noses 49 

Nothing 25, 27, 53, 7 h 78, 79 , 
82, 91, 94, 164, 1 13 
Noun 87 
Nut 25 

O hi 
Oath 97 
Oaths 26 
Obey 37 , 53 , 59 
Observed 127 
Obstinate 96 
Occupation 114 
Od’s 12 
Offence 42, 58 
Offences 36 
Offending 113 
Office 70, 115, 127 
Officer 104 
Old 54 , 104 
Olympus 46 
Onion 47 
Onion-eyed 126 


Onions 26, 71 
Opinion 42, 52, 125 
Oracle 23, 93, 125 
Orange 21, 120 
Orator 25, 98 
Order 79 
Ornament 73 
Orpheus 67 
Ourselves 113 
Out-Herods 127 
Out-villained 122 
Oyster 25, 68 

Paid 24 
Palm 126 
Pansies 112 
Paper 72 

Paragon 101, 119, 127 

Pardon 47, 92, 102 

Parricides 105 

Part 95, 108, no, 113 

Pash 92 

Pass 94 

Past 27, 34 , 47 

Pasture 24 

Pate 44 

Patience 31, 35 , 37 , 52, 61, 68 , 
104 

Paunches 22 

Peace 41, 49, 82, 86, 88, 89, 90, 
9 i, 123 
Pearls 17 
Pencils 121 
Penelope 95 
People 95 
Perdition 128 
Pheeze 92 
Philippi 98 
Philosopher 21 

Philosophy 46, 92, 108, no, 127 
Phoebus 71, 107 
Phases 72 

Physic 20, 41, 80, 127 
Pie 90 


138 


INDEX 


Pilate 89 
Pinch 101 
Pippins 67 
Pitchers 27, 40 
Pitiful 113 

Pity 44, 46, 67, 89, 90, 100, 108, 
no 

Place 26, 30, 70 

Planet 113 

Planets 86, 90, 124 

Play 25, 77, 83, in, 119, 127 

Playing in 

Plodders 22 

Plot 26 

Plummet 66 

Poesy 67 

Poison 32 

Policy 43 

Poppy 114 

Ports 82 

Pot 27 

Poverty 108, 125 
Power 108 
Pox 35 
Praise 51, 100 
Praises 27 
Prattle 18 
Prayed 76 
Prayer 66 

Prayers 47, 85, 97, 102 
Prey 18 

Pride 22, 32, 42, 56, 87, 96 
Primrose 79, 122, 127 
Prisoner 90 
Prodigal 94 
Prodigality 89 
Profit 26, 44 
Progress 83 
Promethean 121 
Promise 81 
Promising 94 
Protest in 
Proud 37 , 42, 95 
Provender 121 


Puck 72 
Pudding 128 
Pull’t 122 
Purpose 29 
Purse 81, 114 
Pye 124 

Qualm 87 

Quarrel 21, 36, 37, 58 
Queen 77, 91, 112, 122, 124 
Question 27, 68, no 
Quick 128 
Quillets 124 
Quip 122 

Rage 82 
Rain 38, 54, 69 
Rancor 36 
Rather 68 
Rats 15 

Raven 21, 42, 51 
Ravens 17, 74 
Reason 22, 40, 66, 92 
Reasons 30 
Rebuke 84 
Redress 32 
Relent 68, 89, 103 
Remedies 25, 60 
Remedy 29, 84 
Remembrance 26, 79, 112, 
Repentance 67 
Report 65 

Reputation 60, 78, 82, 113 

Rest 78, 101, 107 

Retort 122 

Revenge 42, 44, 115 

Rewards 95 

Rich 81, 104 

Right 24, 68 

Rings 76 

Roast 124 

Robbed 60, 61 

Roman 98, 99 

Rome 98 


INDEX 


139 


Root 78 
Rose 48, 56 
Roses 72 
Rue 112 
Russia 69 
Rust 33 

Sacrifice 40, 102, 106 
Safety 30 
Saint 89 
Saint Peter 115 
Salad 126 
Sands 82 
Sap 28 
Satire 71 
Sauce 97 
Scar 26, 56 
Scarecrow 69 
Scene 98, 108 
School-boys 56 
School-masters 54 
Sciatica 125 
Screech-owl 93 
Sea 45, 120 
Sea-change 119 
Secret-false 78 
Security 29 
Seen 94, in 
Seest 87 

Seigniors 113, 121 
Self-love 35 
Self-slaughter 101, 109 
Sermons 74 
Serpent 24, 104, 107 
Serpent-like 105 
Servant 18 
Serve 20 
Served 91 
Service 85 
Shadow 87, 103 
She 68, 113 
Sheep 16 
Shepherd 16, 70 
Shower 17, 31 


Sick 84 
Sickness 21 
Sight 25, 31 

Silence 27, 70, 73, 102, 112, 120 

Silver 101 

Sin 19, 52, 100 

Sinning 105 

Sins 19 

Sit 76, 90, 107, 124 
Sits 109 

Skimble-skamble 83 
Sky 31 

Slander 18, 28, 77 
Slave 76, 85, 125 
Sleep 66, 71, 77 , 79 , 96, 100, 
101, 102, 114, 125 
Smell 81 
Smells 128 
Smelt 96 

Smile 44 , 46, 53 , 57 , 60 

Smock 47 

Smooth 33, 37 

Snake 87 

Society 50 

Soldier 81 

Soldiers 44 

Something 77, 90, 93 

Son 104, hi 

Sore 15, 31 

Sorrow 15, 22, 31, 34, 39 , 51 , 
52, 80, 81, 112 
Sorrows 59 

Soul 60, 69, 74, 82, 92, 102, 109, 

113, ii 5 

Spared 84 
Sparrow 59 
Spectacles 53 
Speculation 79 
Speech 58, 75 , 77 , ™4 
Spider 76 
Spinsters 68 
Spirit 15 
Spoon 15, 28 
Sports 15 


INDEX 


Spot 122 

Spriting 65 

Spring 103 

Spy 108, 114 

Stage 23, 24, 69 

Stake 105 

Star 70, 122 

Stars 16, 33, 38, 55 

Steal 37, 66 

Steps 73 

Stomachs 36, 51 

Stone 51, 114 

Stones 115 

Story 88 

Strange 113 

Strangers 75 

Strive 97 

Strokes 38, 45 

Stuff 101 

Suburbs 97 

Successors 67 

Suitors 44 

Suggestion 15 

Summers 40, 87, 102 

Sun 43, 83, 90, 102, 109, 129 

Surfeit 19, 23 

Suspicion 37 

Swallow 51, 85, 94 

Sweet 31, 115 

Sweetness 106 

Sweets 128 

Swift 56 

Swim 119 

Swine 17 

Sword 55, 83, 99 

Table 95, 112 
Tackle 96 
Tail 114 
Tailor 54 
Take 48 
Taken 96 

Tale 27, 40, 65, 68, 75, 83, 109 
Talk 70, 107 


Talker 91 
Talkers 39 
Talking 84 
Tames 27 

Tears 67, 92, 96, 98 
Tedious 39, 75 
Tempt 57 
Tempted 90 
Temptation 19 
Thank 108 

Thanks 26, 27, 50, 68, 82 

Theft 29 

Theme 91 

Ther sites 50 

Thief 22, 28 

Think 92, 97 

Thinking 57 

Thinkings 76, 91 

Thou 87 

Thought 99 

Thoughts 20, 107 

Three 78 

Threshold 38 

Thrift 23, 58, 109 

Thrum 121 

Thumb 55 

Thumbs 29 

Thunder 126 

Thyself 90 

Tide 41, 46 

Tidings 92, 100 

Time 16, 19, 25, 28, 41, 45, 47, 
52, 53 , 68, 75 , 77 , 78, 93 , no, 

113, 123 

Tires 31 
Tomb 21 
Tomorrow 80, 90 
Tongue 18, 23, 80 
Tongues 74, 82, 86 
Tooth-ache 50 
Top 81 

Traitor 37, 127 
Traveller hi 
T ravellers 66 


INDEX 


141 


Treacherous 102 
Treason 33 , 35 , 59 , 74 
Trencher-friends 125 
Trencher-knight 121 
Trencher-man 120 
Trick 83 
Troilus 125 
Trudge 78 

True 57 , 93, 99, 102, no, 125 
Trust 35 , 38, 75 , 94 , 103 
Truth 16, 30, 31, 33 , 4 h 53 , 65, 
87, 104 

Turkey-cock 86 
Tyrant 120 
Tyrants 44 

Unburthen ed 104 
Uncle no 
Unction in 
Undeserver 34 
Undiscovered ill 
Undone 114 
Uneasy 34 
Unkindest 44, 98 
Unmannerly 53 
Unpathed 77 
Untender 104 
Unwelcome 80, 84 
Unwillingness 89 
Uses 112 
Usurped 106 
Usurpers 38 

Vain-glory 50 
Valiant 44, 125 
Valor 33, 45, 48, 121 
Valued 42 
Varlet 83 
Vein 89 

Vengeance 89, 123 
Venus 57 
Verbosity 72 
Verdict 41 
Verily 27 


Verses 98 
Vice 52 
Vices 55 
Victory 38 
Villain 100, 112 
Villains 21, 73 
Violent 31 
Violets 81 
Vir 22 

Virtue 16, 20, 41, 57, 88, 97 
Virtues 65 
Virtuous 18 
Vivo 52 

Voice 69, 106, 120, 121 
Vow 97 
Vows 16, 49 
Vulcan 92 

‘Wall 55 

Wanderers 105, 120 
Want 28, 53 

War 26, 30, 81, 82, 88, 94, 96 

Water 51, 128 

Way 75 

Wealth 43 

Weapons 60 

Weariness 49 

Weather 22 

Wed in 

Wedding-day 40, 76 
Wedges 41 
Weeds 34, 38, 39 
Weep 51, 96 
Welcome 28, 42, 57, 94 
Well 75 

Westward-hoe 120 
Wheel 54, 106 
Whelp 48 
Whetstone 80 
Whip 115 
Whistle 114 
White 122 
Why 28 
Widow 119 






142 


INDEX 


Widow-maker 123 
Wife 45, 78 
Will 67, 69, 90, 108 
Wind 21, 34, 38, 65 
Wind-obeying 122 
Window 70 
Winds 101 
Wine 25, 113, 114 
Wink 69 
Winning 15, 49 
Winter 27, 87, 88 
Wisdom 18, 20, 25, 32, 48, 55 , 
74 

Wise 32, 40, 79, 84 
Wisely 56, 115 
Wish 72, 85 
Wit 22, 23, 121 
Witchcraft 113 
Wits 22 
Wives 17, 87 

Woe 31, 32, 39, 59, 65, 67, in 
Woes 56 
Wolf 33, 45 
Wolves 35, 125 

Woman 16, 46, 48, 49, 51, 54, 
75, 82, 83, 90, 100, 102 
Womanhood 93 
Womanish 108, 123 
Women 46, 56, 88 
Won 30, 41 
Wonder 36, 88 


Woodcock 18, 112 
Wookcocks 121, 127 
Woods 102 
Wooed 27 

Word 16, 52, 56, 74, 105 
Words 23, 42, 46, 58, 60, 67, 85, 
no, 125 
Work 106 

World 18, 24, 26, 58, 73 , 89, 94 , 
95, 105, 109, 114, 124 
Worm 38, 58 
Worms 25 

Worst 29, 31, 42, 44, 47, 54, 55 

Wound 17 

Wounds 42 

Wrangle 99 

Wrath 67 

Wrathkindled 123 

Wrens 39 

Wretched 49 

Wretchedness 105 

Year 61 
Years 98 
Yesterdays 80 
Yielders 22 
Yoke 20 
Yoke-devils 35 
Younger 26, 54 
Youth 33, 87, 112 
Youths 16 

















































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